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Ann Cefola

Poet

N/A

NY

Email:

annogram@aol.com

Website:

www.anncefola.com

Author's Bio

Ann Cefola is the author of Free Ferry (Upper Hand Press, 2017), and Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014); chapbooks St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped (Kattywompus Press, 2011) and Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007); and translations Alparegho, like nothing else (The Operating System, 2019), The Hero (Chax Press, 2018), and Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). She received a Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery. Her work has appeared in journals such as AMP, Feminist Studies, and Gris-Gris; and her translations in journals such as carte-blanche, Eleven-Eleven, and Exchanges. Ann works as a writer in the New York area where she lives.

Education:

Sarah Lawrence College MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Cars (Main Street Rag, 2015)

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Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Work Space (Lost Horse Press, 2015)

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City Poems (Chuffed Buff Books, 2014)

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Drawn to Marvel (Minor Arcana Press, 2014)

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Lummox Press 3 (Lummox Press, 2014)

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Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Parlor Press, 2014)

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A Slant of Light (Codhill Press, 2013)

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Not Somewhere Else But Here: A Contemporary Anthology of Women and Place (Sundress Publications, 2013)

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Rabbit Ears--TV Poems (Poets Wear Prada, 2013)

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St. Peter's B List (Ave Maria Press, 2013)

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The Widow's Handbook (Kent State University Press, 2013)

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...And Love (Jacar Press, 2012)

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Alhambra 2013 Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2012)

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Alhambra Poetry Calendar for Young Readers (Alhambra Publishing, 2012)

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Knocking at the Door (Write Bloody Publishing, 2011)

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Alhambra 2011 Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2010)

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Come What May (Motes Books, 2010)

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One for the Road (Split Oak Press, 2010)

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Alhambra 2010 Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2009)

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Not a Muse (Haven Books, 2009)

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Alhambra 2009 Poetry Calendar (Alhambra Publishing, 2008)

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Writng by Ear (Motes Books, 2008)

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The Musculature of Small Birds (Shadowbox Press, 2007)

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Hunger Enough (Pudding House Publications, 2004)

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Mirror, Mirror (Midmarch Arts Press, 2004)

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Off the Cuffs (Soft Skull Press, 2003)

Books:

Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014)

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Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007)

Chapbooks:

St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped (Kattywompus Press, 2011)

,

Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2007)

Journals:

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Amoskeag

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Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters

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Atlanta Review

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Bellevue Literary Review

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Big City Lit

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California Quarterly

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Cipher Journal

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Confrontation

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Curbside Review

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Feminist Studies

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First Literary Review-East

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Hospital Drive

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IF Poetry Journal

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J Journal: New Writing on Justice

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Long Shot

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Louisville Review

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Manhattanville Review

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New Plains Review

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Perigee

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Reconfigurations

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Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith

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San Pedro River Review

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Shaking Like a Mountain

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Sugar Mule

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Umbrella

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Visions International

,

Wicked Alice

Prizes won:

Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery, and the Witter-Bynner Translation Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

French

Born in:

Westchester County, NY

New York

Raised in:

Westchester County, NY

New York

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Last update: May 21, 2019