Cynthia Zarin’s most recent books are the novels Estate, published November 2025, and Inverno (2024), as well as Next Day: New and Selected Poems (2024). Her books of poetry include The Swordfish Tooth (1989); Fire Lyric (1993); The Watercourse (2002), which won the Los Angeles Book Award; The Ada Poems (2010), and Orbit (2017). Other works include the essay collections An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History (2013) and Two Cities (2020), as well as five books for children. She teaches at Yale.
Cynthia Zarin
Articles
Don’t Close Your Teeth
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
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