Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of Sightseer (Persea Books, 2011), which won the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Her second collection, Paper Doll Fetus, is forthcoming from Persea Books in fall 2014. Her work has appeared as an Intro Feature in Pleiades, an internal chapbook in Mid-American Review, and in Fence, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. She has been a Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship, and a Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy.  

Photo by Cynthia Marie Hoffman