Cynthia Bernard is a woman in her late sixties who is finding her voice as a poet after many years of silence. A long-time classroom teacher (math and science, grades 6-adult) and a spiritual mentor, she lives with her husband Mark and their pets on a hill overlooking the ocean, about 25 miles south of San Francisco. Her work appears in Multiplicity Magazine, Heimat Review, The Beatnik Cowboy, The Journal of Radical Wonder, Medusa's Kitchen, Passager, Persimmon Tree, Verse-Virtual, and elsewhere. She is currently a student in the MFA program at Lindenwood University, with a concentration in poetry.