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October 27, 2007

Interview with Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson [12:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our last author guest on the show is author Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson, award-winning author of poetry, therapy, novels, screenplays, and much more. A new book of poetry will be coming out in the spring of 2008, and her memoir, entitled Corn Silk, will be released soon after. She speaks to us about her coming home poetry.

Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson was born in rural Minnesota to a jazz musician and a waitress in 1947. She is the author of five poetry collections, several poetry workbooks for therapists, and has published in numerous journals. She was educated at Gustavus Adolphus College, Boston University, Louisiana State University, United Seminary of the Twin Cities, and Oklahoma State University, and has taught at Northeastern State University in Tallequah, Oklahoma, and Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana, and has been an invited lecturer around the country.

In her twenty-two years as a social worker she has worked in drug prevention, practiced individual and group therapy, worked extensively with caregivers of the chronically ill and developmentally disabled.

A much acclaimed poet and author, the winner of a New Millennium Writings Award in 2002 and finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award from the Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004, Gustavson lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband of 36 years.

Find out more about Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson at her website www.cynthiagustavson.com

Visit her podcast at www.cynthiagustavson.com/podcast

Purchase all of her books on amazon.com, on her publisher’s website www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop or anywhere books are sold.

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