Plume: A Writer's Podcast

Season 2 Ep. 5: Writing Has Saved My Life, A Conversation with Cynthia Sylvester

July 13, 2021 Melanie Unruh & Samantha Tetangco Season 2 Episode 5
Plume: A Writer's Podcast
Season 2 Ep. 5: Writing Has Saved My Life, A Conversation with Cynthia Sylvester
Show Notes

In this episode, Sam and Melanie talk with July featured writer, Cynthia Sylvester, about writing dialogue, finding and defending your voice, the confluence of music and storytelling,  writing about the southwest from a Diné perspective, compiling her new cross-genre collection, and more.

Cynthia Sylvester recently completed a collection of short stories and poems, The Half-White Album.  Work from this debut book has appeared in ABQ in Print, Leon Literary Review, Lunch Ticket, As Us Journal, and Bosque – the Magazine.  In 2012 she received the Native Writer Award at the Taos Writers Conference.  She lives in Los Ranchos, New Mexico. 

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