Cynthia Storrs is currently teaching and writing in Nashville, TN. A high school and college instructor for nearly 4 decades, she recently moved to TN from Colorado, where she served on the board of Poetry West, the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Committee, and with the Pikes Peak Arts Council, which awarded her a grant by for her work in promoting poetry in the Pikes Peak region. Her poetry has won awards and been published in print and on-line in CO and TN; she is listed on the Colorado Poets website. In addition to her poetry, she has published articles on bilingualism, biculturalism and cultural adaptation, and addressed conferences in over 10 countries on these topics. She has been selected for two study seminars by the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as one at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and regularly incorporates her love for art in ekphrastic poetry. She appreciates writing, art history, theatre, landscape painting, and chocolate.
Her poems have been published in 4 volumes of Messages from the Hidden Lake (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014), in 2 volumes of Poetry While You Wait (2012, 2014), in 2 anthologies (America’s Poetic Soul, 2016, and Gathering 2019) and in The Tennessee Magazine (2020), and Critique magazine (2019). At the request of the Emily Dickinson Museum, she presented a workshop on Dickinson and her poetry at the annual conference for the National Council of Teachers of English.
After teaching creative writing in high school for 20 years, she now gives writing workshops at The Enrichment Center in Franklin (Williamson Country Parks and Recreation). Her topics include memoire, ekphrastic writing, narrative, and an introduction to writing poetry. She has received awards for her work from the Southern Peaks Public Library, the Pikes Peak Arts Council, the Poetry Society of Tennessee, and Tennessee Magazine.
Her poems have been published in 4 volumes of Messages from the Hidden Lake (2010, 2011, 2013, 2014), in 2 volumes of Poetry While You Wait (2012, 2014), in 2 anthologies (America’s Poetic Soul, 2016, and Gathering 2019) and in The Tennessee Magazine (2020), and Critique magazine (2019). At the request of the Emily Dickinson Museum, she presented a workshop on Dickinson and her poetry at the annual conference for the National Council of Teachers of English.
After teaching creative writing in high school for 20 years, she now gives writing workshops at The Enrichment Center in Franklin (Williamson Country Parks and Recreation). Her topics include memoire, ekphrastic writing, narrative, and an introduction to writing poetry. She has received awards for her work from the Southern Peaks Public Library, the Pikes Peak Arts Council, the Poetry Society of Tennessee, and Tennessee Magazine.