Carpathia (BOA Editions)

Cecilia Woloch is the author of four award-winning collections of poems: Sacrifice, a BookSense 76 Selection in 2001; Tisgan: The Gypsy Poem; Late, for which she was named Georgia Author of the Year in 2004; and Narcissus, winner of the Tupelo Press Snowbound Prize for the chapbook in 2006. She has also published prose in numerous journals and magazines; her essay, "Carpathian Dreams," was recently awarded the Scott Russell Sanders Prize from Elsewhere journal and will be published as a limited edition chapbook in 2009.

Ms. Woloch is currently a lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Southern California. She has received grants and fellowships from the California Arts Council, Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers, the Isaac W. Bernheim Foundation, Chateau de la Napoule Foundation in France, and CEC/ArtsLink International Partners. She spends part of each year traveling and teaching in Europe, and directs the Paris Poetry Workshop in Paris, France, each spring.