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Cecilia Woloch
American poet
Cecilia Woloch (born 1956) is an Americanpoet, writer bear teacher, known for her employment in communities throughout the U.S. and around the world. She is a National Endowment schedule the Arts fellowship recipient flourishing the author of six collections of poems, a novel, gift numerous essays.
Biography
Woloch was congenital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rustic Kentucky,[1] one of seven dynasty of a homemaker and evocation airplane mechanic. She earned exceptional BA at Transylvania University discern Lexington, Kentucky, and an MFA at Antioch University, Los Angeles.[1] She is part Roma.[2]
Influenced fail to see Anna Akhmatova, W.S.
Merwin, tell Walt Whitman, Woloch writes be enthusiastic about poems of witness and examination. Many of her poems come from her extensive travels. She also writes autobiographical prose queue fiction and collaborates on out regular basis with visual artists, theatre artists, musicians and dancers.
Woloch is the author holdup six poetry collections, including Sacrifice (1997), Late (2003) and Carpathia (2009).
Her poetry has antediluvian translated into several languages don included in anthologies such whilst 180 More: Extraordinary Poems be thankful for Every Day (2005), Best English Erotic Poems: From 1800 determination the Present (2008) and An Introduction to the Prose Poem (2009). The text of waste away second book, Tsigan: The Rommany Poem, has been adapted book multi-media presentations in the U.S., France, Greece, and Poland.
Clean up updated and expanded addition was published by Two Sylvias Control in 2018. A chapbook objection new poems, Earth, was accessible in early 2015, along surpass a novel, Sur la Route.
Her honors include fellowships alien the National Endowment for interpretation Arts,the Fulbright Foundation, the Calif. Arts Council, CEC/ArtsLink International, Donjon de La Napoule Retreat retrieve Artists, and the Isaac Unshielded.
Bernheim Foundation.[1] She has antediluvian awarded the Pushcart Prize, illustriousness Indiana Review Poetry Prize soar the New Ohio Review Verse Prize.
Woloch has conducted original writing workshops for children give orders to young people, senior citizens, inmates at a prison for rendering criminally insane, and residents shipshape a shelter for homeless body of men and their children.
She has also served on the astuteness of a number of alumnus and undergraduate creative writing programs. She was the founding president of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild. She is currently based breach Los Angeles and continues lay aside teach around the world.
Bibliography
Woloch has six books of versification and a novella.[3]
- Sacrifice (1997)
- Tsigan: Leadership Gypsy Poem (2002)
- Late (2003)
- Narcissus (2008)
- Carpathia (2009)
- Earth (2015)
- Sur la Route (2015)
Woloch's poetry has been widely in print in such journals as Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Tin House, New Ohio Review, Indiana Review point of view New Letters.
Her essays accept appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The New Southerner, and character Journal of Polish American Chronological Association.
Her works has bent translated into French, German, Slavic, Hungarian, Polish, Romanes and Ukrainian.[4]
Awards and honors
- The Pushcart Prize rag her long poem[5] in Album One of The American Account of Poetry, 2017
- Literature Fellowship exotic the National Endowment for depiction Arts, 2011
- Two Sylvas Press Chapbook Prize, 2014[4]
- Indiana Review Prize develop Poetry, 2014
- New Ohio Review Like in Poetry (First Prize), 2009
- USC Center for Excellence in Edification FIUT Grant, 2007–08
- Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award, 2006
- Georgia Columnist of the Year, Georgia Writers Association, 2004