Cindy Skaggs

Cindy Skaggs is a writer, educator, and public speaker who believes in the transformative power of story. She’s the author of seven novels, two novellas, and the nonfiction guide Dear Someday Writer, which helps emerging authors build sustainable writing practices and finish their books. Her creative work—spanning fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid forms—explores exile, fear, trauma, and the ways stories can restore connection in an increasingly disconnected world.

Cindy’s essays and short works have appeared in December Magazine, So to Speak Feminist Journal, The New Limestone Review, and WOW: Women on Writing. Her current novel-in-progress combines her research in Irish literature with her interest in exile, myth, and memory. She holds an MPhil in Irish Writing from Trinity College Dublin, an MFA in Fiction from Pacific Lutheran University, and an MA in Creative Nonfiction from Regis University, a Jesuit institution whose values continue to shape her teaching philosophy.

Cindy teaches in the MFA and professional writing programs at the University of Denver (MA), Southern New Hampshire University, and Western Colorado University. Through Dear Someday Writer, she offers developmental editing, book coaching, and workshops designed to help writers move from doubt to confidence, from idea to completed manuscript. At the heart of all her work is a simple belief: writing is an act of courage and a way to find our way back to ourselves.