Cyn Kitchen earned a B.A. from Knox College and an M.F.A. from Spalding University. Cyn's poems, essays and stories explore the prairie landscapes of her Midwestern upbringing. A conservationist, chicken farmer and amateur photographer, Cyn is most contented to be grounded in the dirt of home, tending something green and alive. She is the author of Ten Tongues, a collection of short stories, and her poems and essays that can be found in Fourth River, American Writers Review, Poetry South, Poetry Quarterly and Cutleaf. Cyn teaches fiction and creative nonfiction writing, the occasional literature course and an editorial skills course. Cyn recently completed her first full length collection of poems, Broken Hallelujah, and is at work on a novel and a memoir.