Cecilia Woloch is a poet, writer, teacher, and traveler based in Los Angeles but on the road across the US and Europe six months each year. She has published essays, reviews and six award-winning collections of poems--most recently Earth (Two Sylvias Press, 2015) and Carpathia (BOA Editions, 2009). Her second collection, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, was published in French translation (Tzigane, le poème, Gitan, Scribe- l'Harmattan, 2014) and has been adapted for multi-media performances in the U.S. and Europe. Woloch is also the author of NARCISSUS (Tupelo Press, 2008) and SACRIFICE (Tebot Bach, 2006). She collaborates regularly with musicians, dancers, visual artists, theater artists and filmmakers, and conducts workshops for writers around the world. The founding director of Summer Poetry in Idyllwild, The Istanbul Poetry Workshop and The Paris Poetry Workshop, she has also served on the faculties of a number of graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs.