Cynthia Zarin

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

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

She teaches at Yale University. She has written for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, and is a contributing editor for Gourmet, and staff writer at the New Yorker, where she writes frequently about books and theatre. 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. 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. She married Joseph Goddu on December 6, 1997, but later divorced.

Awards 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 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (2002) Guggenheim Fellowship (2011)