Cynthia (CB) Anderson is a writer, journalist and educator. Her book Home Now: How 6,000 Refugees Transformed an American Town was a "Briefly Noted" selection in The New Yorker and received honorable mention in the 2020 New York Book Festival. Her collection River Talk was a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014 and received the 2014 New England Book Festival award for Short Stories. 

Anderson's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Narrative Magazine, North American Review, Pangyrus,  Hayden's Ferry, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, The Masters Review and elsewhere. Prizes include the 2022 Winning Writers Tom Howard Prize for Fiction, the New Millennium Award, and the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.

She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. ​Features and op-eds have appeared in Boston Magazine, CNN, The Christian Science Monitor, HuffPost, The Miami Herald, Forbes, Fourth Genre and others. Essays have twice been shortlisted in Best American Essays.

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Anderson regularly offers workshops online and in-person throughout the U.S. Fellowships/scholarships from Hedgebrook, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, ZYZZYVA, and the AWP/Prague Summer Seminars have supported her work.

She grew up in western Maine in the foothills of the White Mountains. Currently she lives in Maine and Boston, and teaches writing at Boston University. She loves ocean swimming, reading, scotch, and the tin whistle.