Cindy will talk about her most recent book, Mosaic: Poems from Travels in Italy (Wild Dog Press, 2024). Cindy will address the rich history and forms of Italian poetry, historical and contemporary, as well as reading examples from her own works. Cindy Ellen Hill is a Middlebury environmental attorney, author and poet. A 1987 graduate of Vermont Law School, she has forged a career of representing small towns, nonprofit organizations, and citizens groups in land use, utilities regulation, and federal environmental cases. She has maintained a parallel career in journalism and creative writing, winning NENPA awards for news and feature articles while writing for Vermont Woman and Vermont Outdoors, and twice winning the Vermont Writer’s Prize (previously known as the Ralph Nading Hill award) for fiction and poetry. Cindy returned to college in 2022 as a 60th birthday present to herself, graduating with an MFA in Writing (poetry and fiction) from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in July 2024.
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