Silvia Curbelo was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and emigrated to the U.S. with her family as a child. Her collection Falling Landscape will be published by Anhinga Press in 2015. She is also the author of three other poetry collections,The Secret History of Water (Anhinga Press), The Geography of Leaving (Silverfish Review Press), and Ambush (Main Street Rag Publishers).
She has received poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, the Cintas Foundation and the Writer’s Voice, as well as the Jessica Noble Maxwell Memorial Poetry Prize from American Poetry Review.
