Cynthia Newberry Martin

Cynthia Newberry Martin

Cynthia Newberry Martin writes about marriage. About how characters navigate between separateness and togetherness. About their need for both time to themselves and time together. About what compromise does to a person's sense of self. Her first novel, Tidal Flats, was published in September 2019.

Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in Hunger MountainBrevityGargoyleContrary MagazineClapboard HouseStoryglossiaNuméro Cinq and other places. For a number of years, she served as the Review Editor for Contrary Magazine and the Writing Life Editor for Hunger Mountain. In 2012 she graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing. Later that year, she was awarded a residency at Ragdale. In 2013, she became a founding board member of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers.

In 2009, she began the How We Spend Our Days series on her blog. There are now over a decade of essays from over a hundred writers on how each one spent one of their days. Currently, she spends her days in Columbus, GA, with her husband, and in Provincetown, MA, in a little house by the water.

For more about cynthia and her writing, please check out her website at www.cynthianewberrymartin.com