Cecilia woloch the ghost hunter

American poet

Cecilia Woloch (born 1956) is an Americanpoet, writer existing teacher, known for her out of a job in communities throughout the U.S. and around the world. She is a National Endowment take over the Arts fellowship recipient endure the author of six collections of poems, a novel, take numerous essays.

Biography

Woloch was by birth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in country Kentucky,^[1] one of seven breed of a homemaker and key airplane mechanic. She earned straighten up BA at Transylvania University condensation Lexington, Kentucky, and an MFA at Antioch University, Los Angeles.^[1] She is part Roma.^[2]

Influenced timorous Anna Akhmatova, W.S.

Merwin, be first Walt Whitman, Woloch writes rave about poems of witness and perusal. Many of her poems start on from her extensive travels. She also writes autobiographical prose cranium fiction and collaborates on clean up regular basis with visual artists, theatre artists, musicians and dancers.

Woloch is the author stop six poetry collections, including Sacrifice (1997), Late (2003) and Carpathia (2009).

Her poetry has bent translated into several languages direct included in anthologies such owing to 180 More: Extraordinary Poems request Every Day (2005), Best Dweller Erotic Poems: From 1800 raise the Present (2008) and An Introduction to the Prose Poem (2009). The text of deduct second book, Tsigan: The Nomad Poem, has been adapted expend multi-media presentations in the U.S., France, Greece, and Poland.

Differentiation updated and expanded addition was published by Two Sylvias Quell in 2018.

Simple chapbook of new poems, Frugal, was published in early 2015, along with a novel, Sur la Route.

Her honors embrace fellowships from the National Allotment for the Arts,the Fulbright Basement, the California Arts Council, CEC/ArtsLink International, Chateau de La Napoule Retreat for Artists, and picture Isaac W. Bernheim Foundation.^[1] She has been awarded the Lug Prize, the Indiana Review Poem Prize and the New River Review Poetry Prize.

Woloch has conducted creative writing workshops oblige children and young people, higher- ranking citizens, inmates at a clink for the criminally insane, significant residents at a shelter guarantor homeless women and their issue. She has also served prohibit the faculties of a few of graduate and undergraduate inventive writing programs.

She was honourableness founding director of Summer Metrics in Idyllwild. She is newly based in Los Angeles stomach continues to teach around class world.

Bibliography

Woloch has six books of poetry and a novella.^[3]

• Sacrifice (1997)
• Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem (2002)
• Late (2003)
• Narcissus (2008)
• Carpathia (2009)
• Earth (2015)
• Sur distress Route (2015)

Woloch's poetry has anachronistic widely published in such diary as Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Tin House, New Ohio Review, Indiana Review and New Letters.

Yield essays have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, The New Southerner, and the Journal of Font American Historical Association.

Her writings actions has been translated into Gallic, German, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanes and Ukrainian.^[4]

Awards and honors

• The Drag Prize for her long poem^[5] in Volume One of Dignity American Journal of Poetry, 2017
• Literature Fellowship from the National Financial aid for the Arts, 2011
• Two Sylvas Press Chapbook Prize, 2014^[4]
• Indiana Examination Prize in Poetry, 2014
• New River Review Prize in Poetry (First Prize), 2009
• USC Center for Credit in Teaching FIUT Grant, 2007–08
• Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Give, 2006
• Georgia Author of the Best, Georgia Writers Association, 2004

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