Cecilia Woloch – Author & Poet
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Cecilia Woloch is a U.S.-born poet, writer, teacher, and performer based in Los Angeles. Her honors include fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, CEC/ArtsLink International and the Center for International Theatre Development.
She has published seven collections of poems and a novel. Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, her second collection, has been the basis for multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary performances across the U.S. and Europe. Her work has been published in translation in French, German, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Hebrew and Romanes.
Born in Pennsylvania and raised there and in rural Kentucky, she’s traveled the world giving readings, leading workshops at universities and literary conferences, working with children and young people, educators, inmates at a prison for the criminally insane, and residents at a shelter for homeless women and their children.
She’s led an independent workshop for poets in Paris every summer for over 20 years. In the summer of 2025, she’ll also lead a writers’ salon in Nice and travel to Ukraine to lead a writing workshop for Ukrainian teachers of English.
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