Cynthia L. Haven

Cynthia L. Haven is a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She writes regularly for The Times Literary Supplement, and has also contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, World Literature Today, and other publications. Her work has also appeared in Le Monde, La Repubblica, Die Welt, The Kenyon Review, Quarterly Conversation, Music & Literature, The Georgia Review, Civilization, and others.

She has been a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow with the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, a visiting scholar at Stanford's Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and a Voegelin Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

"Peter Dale in Conversation with Cynthia Haven" was published in London, 2005. Her "Czesław Miłosz: Conversations" was published in 2006; "Joseph Brodsky: Conversations" in 2003; "An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz" was published in 2011 with Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. "Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard" was published 2018 with Michigan State University Press.