Silvia Curbelo

Falling Landscape is Silvia Curbelo's most recent poetry collection, available from Anhinga Press. She is the author of three other collections, Ambush, winner of the 2004 Main Street Rag chapbook contest, The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press) and The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press). Silvia has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cintas Foundation and the Writer's Voice, as well as the Jessica Nobel Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review. Her poems have been published widely in literary journals and more than two dozen anthologies, including The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry (W. W. Norton), Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (Anhinga Press), Poems, Poets, Poetry (Bedford/St. Martin) and the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. A native of Cuba, Silvia lives in Tampa, FL.