About

Cynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of the OCD memoir in prose poems, Exploding Head (Feb, 2024), as well as three previous collections of poetry: Sightseer, Paper Doll Fetus, and Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones. Essays in The Sun, TIME, and Lit Hub. Poetry in Electric Literature, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review.

Hoffman is the recipient of a Diane Middlebrook Fellowship in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Wisconsin Arts Board, and a Director’s Guest fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy.

Poems have also appeared as an intro feature in Pleiades, a featured chapbook in Mid-American Review, Best New Poets, and in the annual Introductions Reading Loop online at Blackbird.

Cynthia has taught creative writing and composition at George Mason University, the University of Wisconsin, and Edgewood College, and has offered writing classes through Black Lawrence Press, the Lafayette Writers Studio, The Notebooks Collective, the Arts + Literature Laboratory, and others. She works at a consulting firm in the electric energy industry in Madison, WI, where she lives with her husband and teenage child.