Silvia Curbelo
Silvia Curbelo is a Cuban-born, American poet and writer.
Curbelo's poetry has been anthologized in over two dozen anthologies including The Body Electric: America's Best Poetry (W.W. Norton), Snakebird: Thirty Years of Anhinga Poets (Anhinga Press), and Norton's Anthology of Latino Literature (W. W. Norton)[1]
Her poems have appeared in various journals including American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner and Tampa Review. She is the author of three books of poetry, The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press), The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press) and Ambush (Main Street Rag).
She has received fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seaside Institute, the Writer's Voice, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and Cintas Foundation for her poetry. She won the Atlantic Center for the Arts Cultural Exchange Fellowship to La Napoule Arts Foundation in France. In 1996 Curbelo won the Jessica Nobel-Maxwell Memorial Prize from the American Poetry Review.
She was the judge for the 2010 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
Curbelo currently lives and works in Tampa, Florida as an editor for Organica Quarterly.
See also
- Silvia Álvarez Curbelo, Puerto-Rican historian and writer
External links
- Curbelo reading on Letras Latinas blog
- Short biography and poems at American Poetry Review
- Curbelo biography on City of Tampa website
- Biography at Florida Commission for the Arts website.
- Poems and biography at Main Street Rag Press site.