Cynthia Zarin

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.

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