Cynthia (CB) Anderson is a writer, journalist and educator. Her book Home Now: How 6,000 Refugees Transformed an American Town was a 2019 LitHub Fall Preview Pick and a "Briefly Noted" New Yorker selection. Her fiction collection River Talk was a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. A story cycle Blue Lion Days received the 2023 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award and will be published in May 2024.

Anderson's fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review, Narrative Magazine, North American Review, Pleiades, Indiana Review, The Masters Review and elsewhere. Prizes include the 2022 Winning Writers Tom Howard Prize for Fiction, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, and 2nd place in the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Contest.

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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. Her work has twice been shortlisted in Best American Essays.

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Anderson grew up in Maine and loves ocean swimming, reading, scotch, and the tin whistle. She's taught writing at Boston University, the Chatauqua Institution, Writing Workshops, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, among others. See upcoming workshops and appearances here. 

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Fellowships/scholarships from Hedgebrook, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, ZYZZYVA, and the AWP/Prague Summer Seminars have supported her work.