Cindy Carlson

When not traveling and birding with her husband, CINDY CARLSON has spent most of her adult life along Virginia's Chesapeake Bay. After a long career in youth development, she is enjoying retirement as a writer. A winner of the 2016 Hampton Roads Writers contest for creative nonfiction and a reader for WHRO radio's Writers Block, her work has appeared in several travel journals, The Quotable, The Wayfarer, Bird's Thumb, Hippocampus, Tiferet Journal, and is forthcoming in Chautauqua.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2020*

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