Cecilia Woloch

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 is a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient and the author of six acclaimed collections of poems: 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; Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize in 2006 and a finalist for the California Book Award; Carpathia, a finalist for the Milton Kessler Award in 2010; and Earth, winner of the 2015 Two Sylvias Press chapbook prize. The text of Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem has been the basis for multi-media performances in the U.S. and Europe. Tsigan was translated into French and was published as Tzigane, le poème Gitan by Scribe-l’Harmattan in 2014. A novella, Sur la Route (On the Road), is forthcoming in 2015 from Quale Press.