Cecilia Woloch is the author of six collections of poems and a novel. She is an NEA Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and the recipient of numerous other awards, including a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in the Best American Poetry series. The text of her second book, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, has been the basis for multi-lingual, multi-media performances across the U.S. and Europe; the text was published in French translation by Scribe-lHarmattan in 2014, and an expanded and updated edition of the English version appeared in 2018. In addition to French, her work has been published in translation in German, Polish, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Romanes. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in rural Kentucky, she has traveled the world as a teacher and writer.