Cynthia (CB) Anderson is a writer, journalist and educator. Her book Home Now: How 6,000 Refugees Transformed an American Town was a 2019 LitHub Fall Preview Pick and a "Briefly Noted" selection in The New Yorker. Her fiction collection River Talk was a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2014. A story cycle Blue Lion Days received the 2023 Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award and will be published in May 2024. 

​Anderson's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Narrative Magazine, North American Review, Pleiades, Electric Lit and elsewhere. Prizes include the 2022 Winning Writers Tom Howard Prize for Fiction, the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, and 2nd place in the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Contest. Her nonfiction has appeared in Boston Magazine, Fourth Genre, The Christian Science Monitor, HuffPost, The Miami Herald, and others, and has twice been shortlisted in Best American Essays.

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She holds a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. Fellowships/scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, ZYZZYVA, and the AWP/Prague Summer Seminars have supported her work.

Anderson lives in Maine with her family and has taught at venues including Boston University, MWPA, and Austin-based Writing Workshops. She loves ocean swimming, scotch, and karaoke— generally in that order. 

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See upcoming workshops and appearances here. 

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