User:Cynthia Nieves

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Cynthia Ressy-Nieves-Sullivan (born in 1970's in Manhattan).

Writer of From Heaven & Earth==Stories and Poetic Works of Cynthia Ann Ressy-Nieves

Early Years-Biography-Cynthia was born in the 1970's on the lower East side of Manhattan. From an early age she began writing In journals, creating songs, poetry, essays and stories to find calm in childhood woes. As a young writer, she won a Young Writers Playwright award in 1990 where the Foundation of the Dramatist Guild Young Playwright Festival sponsored and chaired by Stephen Sondheim -

Awarded Cynthia with an Excellence in playwriting merit. In the following years she won awards for her moving poetry. In her college years she became the editor of an underground Zine called "Haze", where new writers and artists were given an opportunity to voice their opinions.

Though commercial success has not been this author's goal she continues her commitment to her craft. As an Elementary school teacher she now takes on the challenge to shape our youth.

As a proud Puerto Rican writer she continues to write and teach in the Bronx; New York City the city that she loves and now plans to write children’s books.

Influences: Literary influences have been from a variety of genres:

Edgar Allan Poe, Billy Collins,Joseph Campbell, Don Miguel Ruiz,Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Esmeralda Santiago,Robert Frost,William Blake,Elie Wiesel and as a child Grimms Fairy Tales.

Plays: An Evening Alone.

Short Stories: The Human Condition, Still, The Christmas Story, A Small Fortune.

Essays: No more Baby Pictures,Disconnected,Acts of Kindness.

Poems: Momentos Preciosos,New York,Mi Pelo Malo,The Unwanted,Remembering.. My Sister,Warm,Cinnamon Toast,Little Bird,The Storm,My Puerto Rico,Heaven,Mom, The Ocean, and To Life.

Books: From Heaven and Earth stories and poetic Works of Cynthia Ann Ressy-Nieves