Cynthia Cruz was born in Germany and raised in California.  She is the author of Ruin (Alice James, 2006). Her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Grand Street, AGNI, Chelsea, Pleiades, the New Orleans Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Warrior Review and others, and are anthologized in Isn’t It Romantic, 100 Love Poems by Younger Poets and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries.