The Betsy Writer's Room presents poet Silvia Curbelo for a weekly wine & cheese reception hosted by hotel owner, Jonathan Plutzik. Take an hour to get to know the Artist in Residence as part of The Betsy Writer's Room residency program.
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Silvia Curbelo was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and has lived in Florida all her adult life. Her poetry collections include Falling Landscape and The Secret History of Water, both from Anhinga Press, and Ambush, winner of the Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest. Awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cintas Foundation, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Writer’s Voice, as well as the Jessica Noble Maxwell Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review, and the James Wright Poetry Prize from Mid-American Review. Her poems have been published widely in literary magazines and more than two dozen anthologies and textbooks, including Florida Literature: A Case Study (Bedford/St. Martin), Poems, Poets, Poetry and the Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. She is assistant editor for YellowJacket Press, and co-editor of the anthology Glass Bottom Sky. Silvia lives in Tampa, where she edited the now-defunct magazine Organica for more than 20 years.