Cynthia’s wetland books are out of print but can be downloaded (in pdf format).
The twelve anthologies are available for purchase. Visit Cynthia’s Bookstore to browse the wonderful anthologies that have published my work, as well as other terrific books that I recommend.
If you would like a signed copy, please contact me.
Books
Across An Aqueous Moon: Travels in Autism (Finishing Line Press, 2016).
Turning Salt into Environmental Gold: Wetland Restoration in the South San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds (Save San Francisco Bay Association, 2002).
Turning Salt Into Environmental Gold
Protecting Local Wetlands: A Toolbox for Your Community (Save San Francisco Bay Association, 2000).
Protecting Local Wetlands
Anthologies
Pick Ups at the Dog Park, Rendezvous in the Rough: Essays from the 21st Century Dating Trenches (forthcoming 2017).
Waiting, Still Waiting, For Words, Monday Coffee and Other Stories of Mothering Children with Special Needs (InWord Press, October 2014).
The Little Matchmaker, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dating Game (Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, December 2013).
The Most Popular Girl, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum (Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, April 2013).
Long Distance, Hot Summer Nights:A Collection of Erotic Poetry, (Inner Child Press, August 2012).
If My Heart Had a Voice, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just For Preteens (Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, July 2011).
Elliott Comes to Play (adoption version), Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms (Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, March 2011).
Confessions of a Decorating Junkie, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters (Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, October 2010).
My Father’s Cheek, 4th Street Studio’s Saturday Salon Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, October 2009).
Transcending Las Vegas, 4th Street Studio’s Saturday Salon Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, October 2009).
Tarts and Torts, Reaching the Bar: Stories of Women at all Stages of their Law Careers (Kaplan Publishing, April 2009). Opening essay.
And Then There Were Two, 4th Street Studio’s Saturday Salon Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, October 2008).
Autistic, 4th Street Studio’s Saturday Salon Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, October 2008).
Living With Ashes, 4th Street Studio’s Saturday Salon Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, October 2008).
Halloween Hair, Livermore Wine Country Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, November 2007).
A Fish in the Desert, Livermore Literary Harvest, (Wingspan Press, November 2006).
Periodicals and Literary Journals
Waiting For Words, The Mom Egg, Vol. 11, Mother Tongue, April 2013.
Memories of Berries, Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative, August 2009.
Elliott Comes to Play, Tiny Lights: A Journal of Personal Narrative, August 2008.
The Accidental Elves, Real Life Column, Contra Costa Times, December 2003.
Is There a Giant Garter Snake in Your Backyard? Superior California Builder, 1992 (cover story).
Online
Fallow Fields, A Writer’s March, March 2017.
If at First You Don’t Succeed: How Writing Resembles Dating, A Writer’s March, March 2017.
First Friend, DimeStories Inaugural Showcase, December 2012 (audio).
Twisted Love, Spruce Mountain Press, Past Loves Annual Essay Contest, November 2012.
Cynthia Writes Because… The I Write Because Project, September 2012.
An Unplanned Life, Part 1 and An Unplanned Life, Part 2, The 40+ Woman, September 2011.
In Public
Morning Prayer, City of Livermore Ekphrastic Event, November 2010.
A Shot of Kirsch and a Pot of Bubbling Cheese, City of Livermore’s Poetry/Prose in Place, April 2010.
Stage
There’s No Daddy Here, performed at part of Dear Ole Dad: A Tribute to Fatherhood by the Petaluma Readers Theatre, directed by Jennifer March, June 2015 and June 2016.
Elliott Comes to Play, performed as part of Defining Moments: Personal Stories of Joy and Regret by the Petaluma Readers Theatre, directed by Jennifer March, Summer 2012 and April 2016.
Museum
Waiting for Words was featured for two weeks in November 2015, alongside the art of Sarah Nicholls as part of an ekphrastic project called M.A.M.A. (mothers are making art) at the Museum of Motherhood in St. Petersburg, FL. You can see it here.