PUBLICATIONS
Forthcoming book A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place, published by Living in a Place Press. Soon available on IngramSpark, Amazon.com and in Hudson Valley and St. Croix bookstores. Visit dedicated page for additional information.
ESSAYS
The Caribbean Writer, Volume 38, 2024, "Houses of St. Croix," p. 283-287
The Caribbean Writer, Volume 38, 2024, "Fresh Impressions," p. 288-291
Blue Mountain Review,"Homestretch," December 2023, pp.155-160,
https://issuu.com/collectivemedia/docs/bluemountainreviewdecember2023
Gray Love: Stories about Dating and New Relationships after 60, Prologue, "Looking at 60,” Rutgers University Press, January 2023
Orion, Spring 2020, "All About Tractors," https://orionmagazine.org/cart/orion-magazine-back-issues/orion-magazine-spring-2020
The Pennsylvania Gazette, "Through a Window, Darkly," November/December 2022,
https://thepenngazette.com/through-a-window-darkly/
The Pennsylvania Gazette, "Orchard Bounty," June 2022, https://thepenngazette.com/orchard-bounty/
The Pennsylvania Gazette, "Chainsaw Massacre," March/April 2022, https://thepenngazette.com/chainsaw-massacre/
Goats Milk, "Foraging Asparagus," August 2021, https://goatsmilkmagazine.ca/2021/08/01/foraging-asparagus/
The Pennsylvania Gazette, "Up the Creek and Back," February 2021, https://thepenngazette.com/up-the-creek-and-back/
Mondays at Ten, "Neighborhood Laundry," "Print Out" and "Polysandory," November 2020 (competitive anthology of St Croix Writer’s Circle) (print only)
2019 Orison Anthology, “Morning Kenyan,” winner of 2018 Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction and finalist in the Bridging the Gap Awards at the 2017 Slice Writer's Conference
Eclectica, July/August 2018, "Deities of Sicily," http://www.eclectica.org/v22n3/mcvay.html
Ragazine, "Field Farm," https://www.ragazine.cc/cynthia-mcvay-creative-nonfiction/
The Ravens Perch, July 2017, "In the Woods," https://theravensperch.com/in-the-woods-by-cynthia-mcvay/
daCunha Anthology 2, "On the Road," Editors' Choice winner in daCunha's 2017 Flash Nonfiction Competition, performed in the UK
Co-author, first edition of Let's Go: Mexico 1985 and contributor to Let's Go: USA 1984
Co-author, with Evon Z. Vogt, "Some contours of social class in a southern Mexican town," Ethnology XXVII:1, 1:1988, pp. 27-44
STORIES
The Caribbean Writer, Volume 38, 2024, "Threat," p. 189-194
Pigeon Review, "This is What Happens," August 2021, https://www.pigeonreview.com/post/this-is-what-happens
Chestnut Review, Volume 1, Number 3, Winter 2020, “Perfect,” https://chestnutreview.com/wp-content/uploads/CR1-3.pdf
DASH, "Layer Cake" (print only) 2019
Meat for Tea, "My Buddhist" (print only)
POETRY
The Caribbean Writer, Volume 38, 2024, "Blues and Blues and Blues," p. 110-116
AWARDS AND HONORS
2018 Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction
Editors' Choice winner, daCunha's 2017 Flash Non-fiction Competition, Performed in the UK October 2017
Semi-finalist, Boulevard's Non-fiction Contest for Emerging Writers
Short-list, Anton Chekhov Contest New Flash Fiction Review
Finalist, 2nd Annual — Sunshot Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Writer's Relief Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award Short Stories
Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction contest
Finalist, Palooka Chapbook Contest
Finalist, New Millenium Writings Muse Contest
Finalist, freeze frame fiction
Non-fiction Finalist, Bridging the Gap Awards, Slice Writer's Conference 2017
Member, St. Croix Writer’s Circle, 2019-present
Participant, Bread Loaf Orion, 2016, Bread Loaf Sicily, 2017 and Slice Writer's Conference, 2017
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