Cynie Cory grew up in Marquette, Michigan. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and florida State University, where she earned a Ph.D. Her poetry has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, New American Writing, Shade, Verse, and Western Humanities Review. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

About American Girl:

"Cynie Cory roams the outer reaches of the heart's territory, from the snowy winter of family life to the tropical jungles of love. She wears her heart on her sleeve and it is as big as the country she writes about. Is she the quintessential American girl? You bet she is, part Annie Oakley, part Emily Dickinson—sharpshooting poet of wild nights. She zooms in on the detritus of love—the broken fragments, the fallen leaves—and puts together a collage that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. Watch out—she's driving down your street."
—Barbara Hamby

"Cynie Cory’s poems dare to approach the sublime—the sublime in madness, in desire, in grief. Laments, love letters, eulogies—all of these surface in the seascape of American Girl"
—Kathryn Harrison