Cynthia Lowen
{{short description|American poet}}
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Cynthia Lowen is the producer and writer of the 2011 documentary film Bully and director and producer of the 2018 documentary film Netizens.
Biography
Lowen grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts{{Cite web |title=Bio {{!}} Cynthia Lowen |url=http://cynthialowen.com/bio/ |access-date=2024-02-06 |language=en-US}}{{Self-published source|date=February 2024}} and graduated from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2001.{{cite web |url=http://www.coloradocollege.edu/DEPT/EN/aftercc/graduate_profiles.asp |title= The English Department | the English Major|website=www.coloradocollege.edu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624045235/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/DEPT/EN/aftercc/graduate_profiles.asp |archive-date=June 24, 2009}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.coloradocollege.edu/events/2012-05-06-bully-q-a-with-producer-cynthia-lowen#.U1EgesdX5fY |title=Event detail: "Bully" Q&A with Producer Cynthia Lowen - Colorado College |access-date=2014-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011726/https://www.coloradocollege.edu/events/2012-05-06-bully-q-a-with-producer-cynthia-lowen#.U1EgesdX5fY |archive-date=2014-04-19 |url-status=dead }} In 2006, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York with an MFA.{{Cite web |url=http://www.slc.edu/news-events/archived/2011-2012/2012-04-05-cynthia-lowen-mfa-06-itn.html |title=Cynthia Lowen MFA '06 |access-date=2014-04-18 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140418130647/http://www.slc.edu/news-events/archived/2011-2012/2012-04-05-cynthia-lowen-mfa-06-itn.html |archive-date=2014-04-18 |url-status=dead }}
Her writing has appeared in the Black Warrior Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.newpages.com/magazineguide/black_warrior_review.htm |title=Literary & Alternative Magazines :: NewPages Guide :: Black Warrior Review |accessdate=2009-08-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509101433/http://www.newpages.com/magazineguide/black_warrior_review.htm |archivedate=2009-05-09 }} and in The Laurel Review.{{cite web |url=http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/laurel/backissues.html |title=TLR Back Issues |accessdate=2009-08-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920222202/http://catpages.nwmissouri.edu/m/tlr/laurel/backissues.html |archivedate=2008-09-20 }}
Awards
- 2008 Campbell's Corner Poetry Award{{Cite web|url=http://v1.elfieraymond.com/ccorner/exchange/lowen.html|title=Campbell Corner - Poetry, Myth, and Philosophy}}
- “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
- Inkwell Poetry Competition{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Fellowship{{cite web |url=http://www.fawc.org/winter/fellows.shtml |title=FAWC: Past Winter Fellowship Recipients |accessdate=2009-08-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090814125540/http://www.fawc.org/winter/fellows.shtml |archivedate=2009-08-14 }}
Works
- [http://v1.elfieraymond.com/ccorner/exchange/lowen.html Campbell's Corner 2008 Poetry Collection, The Language Exchange]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090712075537/http://bostonreview.net/BR33.3/lowen.php "Principles of Uncertainty", Boston Review, MAY/JUNE 2008]
- {{cite book| title=Mapping the interior| publisher=Sarah Lawrence College| year=2006 }}
- {{cite book| title=Conversations in poetry| publisher=Colorado College| year=2000 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| title=Best New Poets, 2008: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers |editor=Mark Strand |editor2=Jeb Livingood| publisher=Samovar Press| year=2008| isbn=978-0-9766296-3-4 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/bnp08.HTM |title=Books | the University of Virginia Press |access-date=2009-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923080635/http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/bnp08.HTM |archive-date=2016-09-23 |url-status=dead }}
=Essays=
- [http://www.pw.org/content/frequent_winner039s_advice "A Frequent Winner's Advice", Poets & Writers]
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|68845}}
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