Writer and educator Cynthia Bond has taught writing for over fifteen years. Cynthia attended Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, before moving to New York and attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Cynthia acted for many years in New York with the Negro Ensemble Company. A PEN Rosenthal Fellow, Cynthia founded the Blackbird Writing Collective in 2011. At present, Bond works as a writing consultant and a workshop coordinator, teaching women, at-risk youth and working within the addiction recovery community. Her novel RUBY was published by Hogarth Press, a division of Random House, in April 2014. A native of East Texas, she lives in Los Angeles with her daughter.

Books by Cynthia Bond

Ruby

by Cynthia Bond - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long braids running through the piney woods of Liberty, their small East Texas town. Young Ruby, who has suffered beyond imagining, flees Liberty for the bright pull of 1950s New York. When a telegram from her cousin forces her to return home, 30-year-old Ruby finds herself reliving the devastating violence of her girlhood. Meanwhile, Ephram must choose between loyalty to the sister who raised him and the chance for a life with the woman he has loved since he was a boy.