Cynthia Sharp holds an MFA in creative writing and an Honours BA in literature. She is the author of Ordinary Light, a first-prize winner in the 2023 SCWES Book Awards, as well as the 2024 International Book Impact Awards in the Sustainability and Contemporary Poetry categories. She penned Rainforest in Russet, for which Bill Arnott dubbed her “The Mary Oliver of Canada” in his review in The Miramichi Reader. 

She was the 2024 Poetry Judge for the North Shore Writers’ Association, on the Poetry and Fiction Judges Panels for the 2024 Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors, a juror for the 2023 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction and co-judge of the 2020 Pandora’s Collective International Poetry Contest.

Her books can be found in Burnaby Public Libraries and her poetry and reviews in many literary journals such as CV2, Toasted Cheese, untethered and Prism.