Cynthia Zarin, 359 West 122nd Street New York, New York 10027 212-932-9029 [email protected]

BOOKS

Poetry

Orbit (Knopf) forthcoming March 2017 The Ada Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2010) The Watercourse (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) Fire Lyric (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993) The Swordfish Tooth (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)

Prose Rotten, (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers) forthcoming 2018 Ado (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers forthcoming 2018 An Enlarged Heart, essays (Alfred A. Knopf 2013) paperback (2014)

For Children Saints Among the Animals (Simon and Schuster 2006, paperback 2015) Albert, The Dog Who Liked To Ride in Taxis (Simon and Schuster, 2004) Wallace Hoskins, The Boy Who Grew Down (DK Ink 1999) What Do You See When You Shut Your Eyes? (Houghton Mifflin 1998) Rose and Sebastian (Houghton Mifflin, 1997)

TEACHING POSITIONS

Coordinator, Concentration in Creative Writing, Yale College 2010-current Senior Lecturer in English Yale College 2008-current

Visiting Poet, John Cabot University, Rome, 2016 Distinguished Lecturer in Poetry, City College of New York 2012-2013) Consultant: Writer's Institute, CUNY Graduate Center 2009-2012 Adjunct Lecturer in English, Yale College, 2007 fall Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Sarah Lawrence College 2007 Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia School of Journalism 2002-2008 Jane Flanders Visiting Professor of Poetry, Bryn Mawr College 2004 Faculty, Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York 1997-2006 Visiting Professor, The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins, 1998 Lecturer in Creative Writing, 1993-1997 Visiting Lecturer, Barnard Summer Program, Prose Writing 1994 Visiting Lecturer, Yale College 1989

RESIDENCIES

Resident Writer and Member, BalletCollective 2012-present “Dear and Blackbirds” premiere, Skirball Center, NYU October 2014) choreography, Troy Schumacher: music, Ellis Ludwig-Leone “The Impulse Loves Company” premier, Joyce Theater,NYC August 2013; choreography, Troy Schumacher; music, Ellis-Ludwig-Leone Artist-in-Residence, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine 2001-present Fellow, Poets Corner, Cathedral of St. John the Divine 2005-2013

JOURNALISM:

The New Yorker: Contributor since 1983, Staff Writer 1983-1993, 2003- 2009, currently contributor to "Page Turner," and "Culture Desk" (recent pieces in 2016: "The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith," "The Hungarian Despair of Magda Szabo's 'The Door,' " The Continuing Riddle of Shakespeare's Pericles,""Nine Hours of Shakespeare," " The Artist Who Is Brining Icebergs to Paris') Profiles and Long Form: "After Hamlet: Mark Rylance Comes to Broadway”) “Teen Queen: Looking for Lady Jane Grey,” “Seeing Things: The Art of Olafur Eliasson; “Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and the Perils of Childhood,” “Profile: The Story Teller, “ Green Dreams: A Queen, A Shipwreck, and A Rare Set of Jewels” Staff Writer, 1984-1994: 2002-2008(“Notes and Comment”, “Talk of The Town” and “On And Off The Avenue” columns; “Profiles”), Children’s Book Round- Up; weekly book reviews (“Briefly Noted”) l995-2009

Gourmet Magazine: Contributing Editor 2002-2010: regular column: “The Cookbook Shelf” 2002=2007 and other essays; The New York Times Book Review: frequent contributor (1992-2004);Architectural Digest: regular contributor 1996-2003; New York Times Magazine; regular contributor 1994-5; Reviews in , The Yale Review, The New Criterion and other magazines; other journal publications: poems in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Grand Street, The New Republic etc. since l979; poems currently in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Poetry (Chicago). Little Star Radio Readings on National Public Radio.

ANTHOLOGIES

Poetry:

Poems included in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Sixty Years of American Poetry (Longman) Random House Pocket Book of Children’s Verse etc.

Prose:

Best American Travel Essays 2007 edited by Susan Orlean Houghton Mifflin) “Fantasy Island” Gourmet Best Food Writing 2005 edited by Holly Hughes (Avalon) “Big Cheese” The New Yorker, Best American Essays 2004, edited by Louis Menand (Houghton Mifflin), The New Yorker

HONORS AND AWARDS

“The Impulse Loves Company” by BalletCollective based on a poem by Cynthia Zarin named to “Ten Best List of 2013” by Alistair MacCauley of The New York Times (December, 2013) “The Ada Poems” “Best Indie Pick 2012 “ NPR 2012 Fellow of Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University 2015-current John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Literature 2012 Whitney Humanities Fellow, Yale University 2010-2013 Fellow of Timothy Dwight College, Yale University 2008-2015 Front Page Award for Arts Journalism, The New York Newswoman’s Club, 2006, for “Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and the Perils of Childhood” The New Yorker Richard T. Liddicoat Journalism Award for National Consumer Reporting 2006, for “Green Dreams,” The New Yorker Parent’s Choice Award for Albert, The Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis 2005 Georgia Book Award for Albert, The Dog Who Like to Ride in Taxis 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry 2002 for The Watercourse Artist-in-Residence and Elector, The Poet’s Corner, Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York City; 1995-present; appointed Elector, The Poet’s Corner 2001; National Endowment for the Arts Award in Poetry, 1997; I. B. Lavan Prize of the Academy of American Poets, 1994 Ingram Merrill Award in Poetry, 1989 Fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, at Yaddo and Visiting Artist at The American Academy in Rome

EDUCATION

Columbia University, School of the Arts, Writing Division M.F.A 1984 (Claire Woolrich Scholarship in Poetry) Harvard College, A.B. 1981, magna cum laude; Lloyd McKim Garrison Award, Joan Grey Untermyer Prize, Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Poetry: 1981