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Biography
Cynthia Rowe was born in Melbourne, Australia. She has a degree from the University of Melbourne and has taught French and English to Year 12 in country Victoria, inner-city Melbourne and New South Wales. She has been awarded the degree of Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.
She has spent time in France and the French territories, getting to know these places well, and was awarded a Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française by the French Ministry of Education.
Cynthia has published four Young Adult novels: Our Hollow Sofa, Ants in My Dreadlocks, Stinger in a Sugar Jar and Bad Grass [ read author research section ] - with a general fiction novel, Couscous Threads, released in March 2008. Her short stories have appeared in national magazines such as Woman’s Day, That’s Life! and Tarralla 5.
[ See Cynthia's list of awards here ]
She has been broadcast on National Community Radio.
Cynthia's poetry can be read in Atlas Poetica, bottle rockets, Chrysanthemum, Contemporary Haibun Online, Eucalypt: a tanka journal, Famous Reporter, FreeXpresSion, Haibun Today, Jack Stamm haiku anthology, Kokako, Modern English Tanka, Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose, Moonset: Literary Newspaper, Notes From the Gean, page seventeen, paper wasp: a journal of haiku, Poetrix, Positive Words, Shamrock Haiku Journal, Signatures, Simply Haiku, Stylus Poetry Journal, Tea Towel Tanka, The Heron’s Nest, 3Lights Journal of Haiku, Senryu & Tanka, Yellow Moon, and FAWNS website.
Her play, Not the Vice-Chancellor, was performed in the Short and Sweet Festival Sydney 2008.
Cynthia's hobbies are reading, gemology, SMSing her friends and watching French programmes on the satellite dish.
Currently she is president of the Bondi Writers’ Group and Editor, Haiku Xpressions.
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