Biography
Cynthia graduated from the creative writing program at SUNY Binghamton with a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing in May of 2001. While at Binghamton Cynthia co-founded the Writing By Degrees creative writing conference and received the SUNY Binghamton English Department’s Distinguished Dissertation Award for a creative work as well as the Marion Link Fellowship for Creative Writing. Cynthia earned her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tulsa where she was the recipient of the Anderson Scholarship for Creative Writing.
Her work has appeared in several literary journals and magazines including Passages North, Monkeybicycle, Stymie Magazine, ESPN the Magazine, Parent:Wise Magazine, Our Stories, The Big Jewel, Used Furniture Review, Prick of the Spindle, and Whetstone, and her entertainment reviews and features have appeared in the San Antonio Current, the Orlando Weekly, the Monterey County Weekly, the Detroit Metrotimes, InDigest Magazine, and Strange Horizons. Forthcoming work: stories in the anthologies The Way We Sleep and The Routledge Handbook of Participatory Cultures. Cynthia is also the editor of the ebook anthology Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema.
Cynthia currently works as a freelance writer, contributes regularly at The Nervous Breakdown where she is also an Associate Editor of Arts and Culture, serves as Managing Fiction Editor of Prick of the Spindle, and resides in San Antonio, Texas with her husband and two daughters. To contact Cynthia, email cynthia (at) cynthiahawkins (dot) net.
