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Cynthia
Brackett-Vincent is currently earning her MA in English/Creative
Writing—Poetry at Southern New Hampshire University. She holds a BFA in
Creative Writing with a minor in Psychology from the University of Maine
at Farmington and an AA in Social Sciences (Quincy College, MA, where
she served as an editor of Stepping Stone and a member of Phi Theta
Kappa). As well, she studied English at Bridgewater State College in MA.
Cynthia has served as Membership Chairperson of The Maine Poets
Society. A Pushcart Prize nominated and award-winning poet, Cynthia has
had over 100 poems published in such journals as Avocet,
YankeeMagazine.com, and Ibbetson Street; in her chapbook, the 95 Poems;
and the online journals, Mannequin Envy, The Orange Room Review,
Pirene's Fountain and others. Her nonfiction and poetry appear abroad.
She has served as co-editor of a 45-church district newsletter and she
co-founded the Tidepool Poets of Plymouth, MA in 2001. Three of her
articles appear in Educators as Writers: Publishing for Professional and
Personal Development (Carol Smallwood, ed., Peter Lang, 2006). Among
other honors, her poetry has received an Honorable Mention in New
England Writers, a citation in the National Federation of State Poetry
Societies, and Second Place twice in Maine Poets Society contests.
Cynthia has judged poetry locally, regionally and nationally for such
contests as the Writer's Digest annual writing competition. Cynthia
gives poetry workshops focusing on inspiration and images and she has a
special interest in bringing poetry to elementary students.
Publications and Prizes
Books:
Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012)
Chapbooks:
The 95 Poems (Musclehead Press, 2005)
Journals:
Avocet, Bear Creek Haiku, Decanto, Ibbetson Street, Pirene's Fountain, Sandy River Review, Tapestries, The Orange Room Review, Yankee Magazine