Cynie Cory is the author of American Girl, a collection of poems which was a 2003 New Issues Poetry Prize Selection. Kathryn Harrison says of American Girl, "Cynie Cory’s poems dare to approach the sublime—the sublime in madness, in desire, in grief. Laments, love letters,
eulogies—all of these surface in the seascape of American Girl." Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, New American Writing, Shade, Verse, and Western Humanities Review. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and earned her Ph.D. at Florida State University. She currently lives in Tallahassee, FL.Listen as she reads some of her recent work. [download]