Cynthia Cruz
{{Short description|American poet}}
Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet.[https://poets.org/poet/cynthia-cruz About Cynthia Cruz | Academy of American Poets] She is the author of seven published poetry collections, and two works of cultural criticism. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/cynthia-cruz|title=Cynthia Cruz|date=2019-09-28|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-09-28}}
Early life and education
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Born in Wiesbaden, Germany, Cruz grew up in Germany and in northern California.
She earned her B.A. at Mills College. She earned her M.F.A. at Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA in Art Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts and an MA in German Language and Literature at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Cruz is currently pursuing her PhD in Philosophy at the European Graduate School. Her research centers on Hegel.
Work
Her first collection of poems, Ruin, was published by Alice James Books in 2006, and reviewed by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Library Journal and received a starred review from Publishers Weekly.{{cite web |url=http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/ruin/ |title=Ruin |publisher=Alice James Books |access-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503033915/http://alicejamesbooks.org/ajb-titles/ruin/ |archive-date=May 3, 2014 |url-status=dead }} Her second collection The Glimmering Room was published by Four Way Books{{cite web |url=http://www.fourwaybooks.com/2012fall/cruz.php |title=The Glimmering Room by Cynthia Cruz |publisher=Four Way Books |access-date=March 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130204031124/http://www.fourwaybooks.com/2012fall/cruz.php |archive-date=February 4, 2013 }} and launched at the contemporary art gallery Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden; it was also reviewed by The New York Times alongside the poet C. K. Williams.{{cite journal |last=Latimer |first=Quinn |url=http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the-year-in-books |title=The Year in Books |journal=Frieze |issue=151 |date=November–December 2012 |access-date=2013-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121219062146/http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/the-year-in-books/ |archive-date=2012-12-19 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |last=Jennings |first=Dana |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/books/poems-on-mortality-by-c-k-williams-and-cynthia-cruz.html?_r=0 |title=Poets Who Look Death in the Eye |work=The New York Times |date=December 31, 2012}} Her third collection, Wunderkammer, was published in 2014 by Four Way Books, "How the End Begins" was published in 2016,{{Cite web|url=https://fourwaybooks.com/site/begins/|title=Four Way Books » How the End Begins|website=fourwaybooks.com}} "Dregs," in 2018,{{Cite web|url=https://fourwaybooks.com/site/dregs-cynthia-cruz/|title=Four Way Books » Dregs|website=fourwaybooks.com}} and "Guidebooks for the Dead" in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://fourwaybooks.com/site/guidebooks-for-the-dead/|title=Four Way Books » Guidebooks for the Dead|website=fourwaybooks.com}} Her books have been reviewed widely.{{Cite web|url=https://jacket2.org/reviews/curiosity-and-rarity|title=Curiosity and rarity | Jacket2|website=jacket2.org}}{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-935536-47-5 | title=Wunderkammer by Cynthia Cruz }}{{Cite web|url=https://kenyonreview.org/reviews/how-the-end-begins-by-cynthia-cruz-738439/|title=On How The End Begins by Cynthia Cruz|website=The Kenyon Review}}{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1935536673 | title=How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz }}{{cite web | url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-945588-18-1 | title=Dregs by Cynthia Cruz }} Her seventh collection of poems, "Hotel Oblivion," nominated for the Kingsley Tufts Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.cgu.edu/news/2023/02/finalists-selected-for-cgu-kingsley-and-kate-tufts-poetry-awards|title=Finalists Selected for CGU's Prestigious Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards ·Claremont Graduate University|first=Brittney|last=Morales|date=February 21, 2023|website=Claremont Graduate University}} and the National Book Critics Circle Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.bookcritics.org/2023/02/21/hotel-oblivion-by-cynthia-cruz/|title=Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz|first=Halima|last=Elmajdoubi|date=February 21, 2023|website=National Book Critics Circle}} was published in 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://fourwaybooks.com/site/hotel-oblivion/|title=Four Way Books » Hotel Oblivion|website=fourwaybooks.com}}
She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including BOMB Magazine,'The New Yorker{{cite news |last=Cruz |first=Cynthia |url=http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2010/02/01/100201po_poem_cruz |title=Diagnosis |magazine=The New Yorker |date=February 1, 2010}} AGNI,{{cite web |last=Cruz |first=Cynthia |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2003/cruz.html |title=My Heart is the Smallest Catafalque |work=AGNI Online |access-date=March 11, 2013}} The American Poetry Review,{{cite journal|last=Cruz|first=Cynthia|date=November–December 2008|title=The Cinema Room|url=https://aprweb.org/poems/the-cinema-room0|journal=The American Poetry Review|volume=37|issue=6}} Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Guernica and The Paris Review, and in anthologies including Isn't it Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets (Wave Books, 2004), and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, edited by poet Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004). She is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and a Hodder Followship from Princeton University.{{cite web |url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php |title=Index of MacDowell Fellows |publisher=The MacDowell Colony |access-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php |archive-date=May 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/fellows/cruz/ |title=Cynthia Cruz |publisher=Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton |access-date=March 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019115229/http://www.princeton.edu/arts/lewis_center/society_of_fellows/fellows/cruz/ |archive-date=October 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }} In spring of 2019 Disquieting: Essays on Silence, a collection of critical essays, was published by Book*hug. A second collection of cultural criticism, The Melancholia of Class, was published by Repeater Books in 2021.{{Cite web | url=https://www.howtheendbegins.com/bio | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191113182836/https://www.howtheendbegins.com/bio | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 13, 2019 | title=Unknown}}
Cruz is editor, with the visual artist, Steven Page, of the interdisciplinary journal, Schlag Magazine.{{cite web |url=https://www.schlagmagazine.com/ |title=Home |website=schlagmagazine.com}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.cynthia-cruz.com/home Official website]
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Category:Poets from California
Category:Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Category:Sarah Lawrence College faculty
Category:Princeton University fellows
Category:Fordham University faculty
Category:American poets of Mexican descent
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