Cynthia Zarin (born 1959) is an American poet and journalist.

She graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude, and Columbia University with an M.F.A.

She teaches at Yale University.^[1] She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest,^[2] and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre.^[3] Other works include libretti for two ballets for the New York-based company BalletCollective, directed by Troy Schumacher, "The Impulse Wants Company" and "Dear and Blackbirds.^[4] Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Grand Street, The Nation, and are widely anthologized.

She married Michael Seccareccia on January 24, 1988, but later divorced.^[5] She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.^[6]

• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry
• artist in residence at St. John the Divine.
• Peter I. Lavan Award
• New York Women's Press Award for Writing on the Arts
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry
• 2002, she received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
• 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship

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Collections

• New Age and other poems. Columbia University. 1984.
• The swordfish tooth : poems. New York: Knopf. 1989.
• Fire Lyric. Knopf. 1993. ISBN 978-0-679-42003-3.
• The Watercourse. Alfred A. Knopf. 2002. ISBN 978-0-375-41366-7.
• The Ada Poems, Alfred A Knopf 2010. ISBN 978-0307272478
• Orbit, Alfred A. Knopf 2017. ISBN 978-0451494726 ^[7]

List of poems

• "Of Lincoln". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-11-25. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
• "The Astronomical Hen". Poetry Foundation. Archived from the original on 2008-11-28. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
• "Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day". poets.org. Archived from the original on 2009-04-04. Retrieved 2009-06-29.

Anthologies

• Norton Anthology of Poetry ISBN 978-0393969245

• Robert Atwan, Louis Menand, ed. (2004). "An Enlarged Heart". The Best American Essays 2004. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-618-35706-2.
• Holly Hughes, ed. (2005). "The Big Cheese". Best Food Writing 2005. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-1-56924-345-9.
• "Seeing Things: The art of Olafur Eliasson". The New Yorker. November 13, 2006.
• "After Hamlet: A Shakespearian Maverick Comes to Broadway" The New Yorker, May 2008.
• "Not Nice: Maurice Sendak and The Perils of Childhood" The New Yorker, April 2006.
• "Teen Queen: Looking For Lady Jane" The New Yorker, October, 2007.
• An Enlarged Heart, A Personal History, Alfred A. Knopf 2013.^[8][9]
• Two Cities. New York: David Zwirner Books. 2020.

• Rose and Sebastian. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1997. ISBN 978-0-395-75920-2.
• What Do You See when You Shut Your Eyes?. Illustrator Sarah Durham. Houghton Mifflin. 1998. ISBN 978-0-395-76507-4.
• Wallace Hoskins, the Boy who Grew Down: The Boy Who Grew Down. Illustrator Martin Matje. DK Ink. 1999. ISBN 978-0-7894-2523-2.
• Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in Taxis. Illustrator Pierre Pratt. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. January 1, 2004. ISBN 978-0-689-84762-2.
• Saints Among the Animals. Illustrator Leonid Gore. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. 2006. ISBN 978-0-689-85031-8.

• "conversation with Cynthia Zarin", Boldtype
• " Cynthia Zarin", February 12, 2009, Poetry Series, News Hour, PBS Archived April 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine