Cynthia Robinson Young is the author of the chapbook, Migration (Finishing Line Press, 2018) for which she was named Finalist in the 2019 Georgia Author of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in journals and magazines including The Writer’s Chronicle, Poetry South, The Amistad, Grist, The Cutleaf Reader, Chapter 16, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net for 2023.
Her poems have been longlisted in the Sundress Broadside Contest, Songs of Eretz Poetry Contest, and received Honorable Mentions in the Charlotte Lit Writers South Award, Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award (Writer’s Relief), and Writers Digest Top 100 Poetry Contest. An excerpt from her novel in progress is included in the anthology, Dreams for a Broken World (Essential Dreams Press, 2022).
Cynthia lives in Chattanooga with her husband, surrounded by eight adult children and 18 grandchildren.
“I was incredibly inspired by Young’s ability to use the craft of writing to hold space for black women through history and was moved by the strength and effectiveness of the poems.”
“‘Why Mama Mae Believed in Magic’ by Cynthia Robinson Young is immediately raw and powerful.”