CYNTHIA CRUZ’s most recent collection of poems, Hotel Oblivion (Four Ways Books, 2023), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award.
Her other publications include Steady Diet of Nothing (Four Ways Books, 2023), Back to the Woods (Four Ways Books, 2023), Guidebooks for the Dead (Four Way Books, 2020), Dregs (Four Way Books, 2018), How The End Begins (Four Way Books, 2016), Wunderkammer (Four Way Books, 2014), The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, 2012), and Ruin (Alice James, 2006). She is also the author of Disquieting: Essays on Silence (Book*hug, 2019) and The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class (Repeater Books, 2020).
She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, BOMB, and the Boston Review. She has published essays, interviews, and book and art reviews in the Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Guernica, and the American Poetry Review.
