About me (long version):

Cynthia Pratt is one of the founding members of the Olympia Poetry Network’s board which has been in existence for over 35 years.  She has a poem in their 35th Anniversary anthology, Let It Burn, Let It Float, available through Olympia Poetry Network’s website. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Creek Review, Raven Chronicles, Feminist Theology Poetry, The Raven’sPerch, The Writing Disorder, Poetry Breakfast, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Dreich Magazine, Kestrel Journal, Skink Beat Review, Quarter Press, Willows Wept, Moonstone Arts Center, Third Wednesday Magazine, and other publications, and in the anthologies, Tattoos on Cedar (2006), Godiva Speaks (2011), two anthologies by the Fusion Collective, Dancing on the Edges (2017) and Garden of the Covid Museum (2021), and the anthologies Hidden in Childhood, Home For the Holidays,  Humana Obscura’s Blue anthology, and the anthology by Washington Humanities and Empty Bowl Press, I Sing the Salmon Home (2023). Forthcoming poems are in Anthologies: Bird Brains: A Lyrical Guide to Birds in Washington, and in Raven Chronicles’ Transformations anthology. Her manuscript, Celestial Drift¸ was published in 2016. Her second manuscript, That Wild Knocking, through Finishing Line Press, is forthcoming in the summer of 2026. Its preorders will be available starting April 6, 2026. She is a former Fish and Wildlife biologist.  A former Lacey Councilmember and Deputy Mayor of the City of Lacey for the last 12 years, her term ended in December 2021.  She is the first Poet Laureate of Lacey as of 2022.  She reads murder mysteries and Sci-Fi, and talks to the birds in her backyard.