Cynthia received her MFA in Writing at Spalding University. Her critical thesis, “‘A Snake Lies Hid:’ Aphra Behn’s Poetry and the War Between the Sexes,” appeared in Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.   Cynthia's poems have appeared in anthologies such as “Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke” from Tupelo Press, “The Cancer Poetry Project”, and “The Boom Project,” as well as journals Two Hawks Quarterly, Naugatuck River Review, Evening Street Review, Off the Rocks, Paper Street, Bloom, and others.