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Cynthia J. Sylvester

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Born

in Albuquerque

Website

https://cynthiajsylvester.com

Genre

Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Member Since

August 2013

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Cynthia Sylvester is born into the Kiyaa’áanii Clan for the Bilagáana Clan and is an enrolled member of the Diné. She is a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines. She received the Native Writer Award at the Taos Writer’s Conference. She graduated from the University of New Mexico and received her MFA in creative writing from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Sylvester’s debut book, The Half-White Album, was published by the University of New Mexico Press as part of the Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series. The Half-White Album won the best LGBTQ+ book in the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. She’s currently working on a novel and a collection of fiction and cr ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 31 ratings · 11 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Half-White Album (Lynn and Lynda Miller Southwest Fiction Series) 3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Cynthia’s Quotes

“Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?”
― Alice Munro

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“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

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