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Cybele Zufolo, was born in New York City in 1972 and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York.

Cybele Zufolo has a long-standing history as a writer, adjunct professor of English, poet, performing artist, scholar and teacher. Cybele is the founder of the Word Performance reading series in San Francisco, CA. From 2006-2010, Cybele was a college adjunct instructor of Literature, Poetry, Shakespeare and Writing at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, with the City University of New York, where she taught Modern Poetry, Introduction to Shakespeare, Non-fiction Essay Writing (English 101), Short Stories, and Intermediate Literature and Drama (English 201).

Ms. Zufolo was also an adjunct instructor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, teaching Multi-Cultural Literature, The Modern Novel, The Art of Poetry, Essay Writing, Shakespeare and Intermediate Literature. In 2008, Ms. Zufolo received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Shakespeare Center to participate in a five-week program for college professors. In 2009, Ms. Zufolo’s essay was published in the City University of New York’s faculty journal Inquirer on teaching Shakespeare to college students, called “The Bard at BMCC.”

Cybele has written extensively on the notion of beauty and illusion in an essay called “A Beautiful Satire: Make-Up, Cosmetics and Beauty in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Hamlet and Ben Jonson’s Epicoene: The Silent Woman as well as “Constructing the Female on Stage - Make-Up and Beauty in Ben Jonson’s Epicoene: The Silent Woman, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Othello and Modernist Texts of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Bakhtin.” Her collection of essays, short stories and poems has not been published and is called Ocean Sounds in New York.'' Cybele received a partial scholarship to the Breadloaf English School summer intensive program.

Cybele holds a BA degree in English/American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz, graduating in 1994. Cybele has a Masters Degree in English Education from Teachers College Columbia University, class of 2004, where she received a merit scholarship for excellence in English. Cybele studied French literature, dance and theater at the Universite de Poitiers, France in 1992-1993. She speaks French. At UC Santa Cruz Cybele performed in Mel Wong’s Spring Dance Showcase and in student theatre.

After college in 1994, Cybele acted in the Bigg’s Rosati national touring company production of The Three Musketeers in both French and English, which toured nationally and performed in local auditoriums through the United States. In 1996, Cybele performed in a three woman musical variety show in Ikaho Japan. She also studied acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School, performed at the Lambs Theatre and with various off-off Broadway theatre companies. She acted small roles on television and in films. To support herself as a writer, poet and actress, Cybele worked as an administrative assistant and office generalist in numerous banks and law firms in New York and San Francisco.

Cybele studied ballet at the School of American Ballet in New York from 1980-1987, and danced the youth roles with the New York City Ballet Company in The Nutcracker, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Mozartiana and Harlequinade from 1981-1986. Cybele attended the Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City. She has written about her experiences with dancing and performing in "I Remember the New York City Ballet."

Cybele lives in the Mission District of San Francisco, California with her husband Todd Siegel. Cybele married Todd Siegel in 2010 in Malibu, California.