About Cecilia Woloch
Cecilia Woloch (born 1956) is an American poet, writer, and educator, celebrated for her impact on communities throughout the United States and beyond. She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and is the author of six poetry collections, a novel, and numerous essays. Among her poetry collections are Sacrifice (1997), Late (2003), and Carpathia (2009). Her poetry has been translated into various languages and included in anthologies such as 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005), Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (2008), and An Introduction to the Prose Poem (2009). The text of her second book, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, has been adapted for multimedia presentations in the U.S., France, Greece, and Poland. An updated and expanded edition was published by Two Sylvias Press in 2018. A chapbook of new poems, Earth, was released in early 2015, along with her novel, Sur la Route.Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, the California Arts Council, CEC/ArtsLink International, the Chateau de La Napoule Retreat for Artists, and the Isaac W. Bernheim Foundation. She has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, and the New Ohio Review Poetry Prize.
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