Cynthia Reeser is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of
Prick of the Spindle. She has a degree in English Literature from Arizona State University, a degree in piano performance, and has had the pleasure of studying at the University of Oxford as a Visiting Student. Cynthia has worked as a staff writer and book review columnist for a military newspaper, as a piano teacher, and is currently a freelance writer and editor. Her poetry and fiction appears or is forthcoming in
42opus,
elimae,
Temenos, The Dirty Napkin, Artifice Magazine, PicFic,
Dogzplot, the
Metazen Christmas Book 2009, and others; book reviews appear or are forthcoming on publishers' and other sites throughout the web, including Bookslut.com, NewPages and
Tarpaulin Sky; her poetry chapbook,
Light and Trials of Light, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in early 2010; and she has two nonfiction titles forthcoming from Atlantic Publishing in 2010. She has been a preliminary judge for the Million Writers' Award for the past two years. Cynthia is also a visual artist whose work has appeared in art invitationals, auctions, and other shows throughout Louisiana. Her art has appeared in
322 Review and
Dogzplot, has graced the covers of a few books, and can be seen at
www.cynthiareeser.com.