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 first full-length collection of poems, Broken Hallelujah, is due out in 2026. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Cyn's poems and essays can be found in such places as 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. She is at work on a memoir, Prosthesis, and is shopping her second book of poems, Because I Said So.