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 most recently Orbit, as well as a novel, Inverno, and two books of essays, Two Cities, and An Enlarged Heart, and several books for children. She is a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. A winner of the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, she teaches at Yale and lives in New York City.
