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Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic. She attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, earning degrees in English and Theater Arts, before moving to Los Angeles in 1979. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University L.A. in 1999. A celebrated teacher, Ms. Woloch has conducted poetry workshops for thousands of children and young people throughout the United States and around the world, as well as workshops for professional writers, educators, participants in Elderhostel programs for senior citizens, inmates at a prison, and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children. She is the founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild and of The Paris Poetry Workshop, and is currently a lecturer in the creative writing program at the University of Southern California as well as a member of the core faculty of the low-residency MFA Program in Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University. Her previous books of poems are Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 selection in 2001; Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in Poetry in 2004; and a chapbook, Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Competition in 2006. Her poems have been anthologized in When She Named Fire: Contemporary American Women Poets; Best American Erotic Poetry: 1800 to the Present; Billy Collins' 180 More (Extraordinary Poems for Every Day), Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times, among many others, and have been featured on Keillor's The Writers' Almanac as well as in Ted Kooser's nationally syndicated column American Life in Poetry. She spends a part of each year traveling, and in recent years has divided her time between Los Angeles and Idyllwild, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Shepherdsville, Kentucky; Paris, France; Warsaw, Krakow, and a small village in the Carpathian mountains of southeastern Poland.
Her traveling poetrics are striking in the way that she defies the
borders of "narrative" and "lyric"; she combines the two
seamlessly, an enviable gift.--Sacramento News & ReviewThese poems
move through love and death, sadness and euphoria, and across
European and American landscapes, encountering lovers, strangers,
and beloved ghosts. They arrive, finally, in a place of beauty,
mystery, grief, and joy. Poems from this collection were selected
by Marie Howe as winner of the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook
Award.Cecilia Woloch was named 2004 Georgia Author of the Year in
Poetry for her last collection, Late (BOA Editions, Ltd.,
2003). She is founding director of the Summer Poetry Workshop in
Idyllwild, California. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and Los
Angeles, California, and travels extensively in Europe.
From Devils Lake Journal:
“Celia Woloch’s collection Carpathia is about distance, both
physical and emotional. Her poems occupy a lush landscape where the
natural world succombs to loss, where “fat bees [fall] into the
wine” and the ghost swans have “wings of death.” The highlights of
this collection are her numerous postcard poems which feel balanced
in their attempts to be both strange and authentic without becoming
burdened with ironic oddity that I’ve seen so much in recent
poetry. Her postcards move, making leaps with each new sentence,
and their prose-poem form opens these poems up to be more peculiar
in a way that’s all-together successful.”
From The Cosmopolitan Review:
“One of the joys of Cecilia Woloch’s poetry is that it so
beautifully and skilfully intermingles humour with emotional
intensity, sensuality, and existential profoundness...Underneath it
all, there lies a clear conviction that each of us could have been
somebody else, could have been born and lived somewhere else, and
yet “We all dwell in one country, O stranger, the world.”
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