Let’s Talk about Cenizas with Cynthia Guardado
Let’s Talk about Cenizas with Cynthia Guardado
Cynthia Guardado is the daughter of Salvadoran born parents, poet, and activist. She earned her Bachelors from the University of California, Santa Cruz and received her Masters of Fine Arts from California State University, Fresno with an emphasis in poetry.
She is the author of two collections of poetry: Cenizas (University of Arizona Press 2022) and ENDEAVOR (World Stage Press 2017). She was the winner of the Concurso Binacional De Poesía Pellicer-Frost in 2017 (México) and a finalist for the National Poetry Series in 2019. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, U.S. Latinx Voices in Poetry, The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States, In the Words of Women International Anthology, Huizache, Bozalta Journal, The Acentos Review, The Packinghouse Review and The Normal School. She is currently a professor of English at Fullerton College, where she is dedicated to social change in and out of the classroom.