Cynthia Atkins is the author of Psyche's Weathers, In The Event of Full Disclosure (CW Books),and Still-Life With God (Saint Julian Press 2020), and a chapbook forthcoming from Harbor Editions, 2022. Her work has appeared in many journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, BOMB, Cleaver Magazine, Diode, Green Mountains Review, Indianapolis Review, Rust + Moth, North American Review, Seneca Review, SWWIM, Thrush, Tinderbox, and Verse Daily. Formerly, Atkins worked as the assistant director for the Poetry Society of America, and has taught English and Creative Writing, most recently at Blue Ridge Community College. She is an Interviews Editor for American Microreviews and Interviews. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and has earned fellowships and prizes from Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Writer's Voice, and Writers@Work. Atkins lives on the Maury River of Rockbridge County, Virginia, with artist, Phillip Welch and their family.

Other poems by Cynthia Atkins in Verse Daily:
August 2, 2020:   "When God Is A Bullet" "It begins with the middle finger..."
April 3, 2014:   "As Seen From Above" "While your mind is singing..."
August 5, 2013:   "Table" "For once, tell us your troubles..."

Books by Cynthia Atkins:

Other poems on the web by Cynthia Atkins:
"Crickets"
"Consecration"
"My Body is a Vessel"
Three poems
"TV"
"Mirror, Mirror"
"Imaginary Friends"
"When Homer Roams"
"Elegy for a Scarecrow"

Cynthia Atkins's Website.

Cynthia Atkins on Twitter.

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