Biography

Cynthia Storrs is currently teaching and writing in Nashville, TN. A high school and college instructor for nearly 4 decades, she recently moved to TN from Colorado, where she served on the board of Poetry West, the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Committee, on the editorial board for The Eleventh Muse and with the Pikes Peak Arts Council, which awarded her a grant by for her work in promoting poetry in the Pikes Peak region. She currently serves with The Poetry Society of Tennessee. Her poetry has been published in Critique magazine, Tennessee magazine, on-line, and in 5 anthologies, most recently in Tennessee Voices. In addition to her poetry, she has published articles on bilingualism, biculturalism and cultural adaptation, and addressed conferences in over 10 countries on these topics. She was asked by the Emily Dickinson Museum to speak at the conference for the National Council of Teachers of English, and selected for two study seminars by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as one at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. She loves writing, art history, theatre, landscape painting, and chocolate.