Cinthia Ritchie

Cinthia Ritchie is a former journalist and Pushcart Prize nominee who lives and runs mountains in Alaska. She's a recipient of two Rasmuson Individual Artist Awards, a Connie Boocheever Fellowship, residencies at Hedgebrook, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Hidden River Arts, and the Brenda Ueland Prose Award, Memoir Prose Award, Sport Literate Essay Award, Northwest PEN Women Creative Nonfiction Award, Drexel Magazine Creative Nonfiction Award, Once Written Grand Prize Award and was named a Faulkner Wisdom Creative Writing Finalist.

Her work can be found in New York Times Magazine, Sport Literate, Water-Stone Review, Memoir, Under the Sun, Literary Mama, Slow Trains Literary Journal, Wicked Alice, Ghoti, Stirrings, Women of the Web Anthology, Nerve Cowboy, Conspire, Clean Sheets, International Journal of Erotica, 42opus, Little White Poetry Journal, damselfly press, The Boiler Journal, Miller's Pond, Gloom Cupboard, Sugar Mule, Breadcrumbs and Scabs, Third Wednesday, Writer's Digest, The Quivering Pen, 49 Writers, and over 25 other literary magazines and small presses. Look for her upcoming work in Evening Street Review, Cactus Heart Press, MARY: A Journal of Writing and Alaska Magazine.

Ritchie's debut novel, Dolls Behaving Badly, released Feb. 5 from Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group.

Visit her Website and blog at: www.cinthiaritchie.com