FEATURED POETS CYNTHIA ANDERSON & CINDY RINNE

Cynthia Anderson lives in the Mojave Desert near Joshua Tree National Park. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Spillway, Apercus, Askew, San Pedro River Review, Crab Creek Review, Mojave River Review,

The Coil, Postcard Poems and Prose, Inlandia: A Literary Journey, and Split Rock Review. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in anthologies such Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, Waters Deep: A Great Lakes Poetry Anthology and Bearing the Mask: Southwestern Persona Poems. She also co-edited the anthology A Bird Black As the Sun: California Poets on Crows & Ravens. She is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Waking Life, Now Voyager, and Route, all published by Cholla Needles Press.  www.cynthiaandersonpoet.com

Cindy Rinne creates fiber art and writes in San Bernardino, CA. She is Poet in Residence for the Neutra Institute Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA. A Pushcart nominee. She collaborates in Performance Poetry using her own costume creations. Cindy is the author of several books: Letters Under Rock with Bory Thach, (Elyssar Press, Mapless with Nikia Chaney (Cholla Needles Press), Moon of Many Petals (Cholla Needles Press), Listen to the Codex (Yak Press), and others. A finalist for the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Her poetry appeared or is forthcoming in: Anti-Herion Chic, Unpsychology Magazine, MORIA, several anthologies, and others. www.fiberverse.com