Cynthia Zarin

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Cynthia Zarin was born in New York City and educated at Harvard and Columbia. She is the author of five previous collections of poems, including Next Day (Knopf, 2024); Orbit (Knopf, 2017); and The Ada Poems (Knopf, 2010). She is also the author of a novel, Inverno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), two books of essays, Two Cities (David Zwirner Books, 2020) and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History (Knopf, 2013), and several books for children.

Zarin is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. She is also a winner of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, Zarin teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.