Cynthia Macdonald (b. Feb. 2, 1928, New York City) is an American poet.
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She was educated at Bennington College, Mannes College of Music, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and the Houston-Galveston (Texas) Psychoanalytic Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, where she was certified as a psychoanalyst in 1986.[1] Originally Macdonald intended to make a profession of singing, from 1953 to 1966.[1] She then taught English at Sarah Lawrence College (1970–75) and Johns Hopkins University, (1975–78).[1] In 1979 she founded the creative writing program at the University of Houston, serving as codirector.
She was a member of the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.[2]
She wrote the libretto for The Rehearsal (1978), an opera by Thomas Benjamin.[1] In 1995, Macdonald coedited Connectionism and Philosophy of Psychology, with Graham Macdonald.[1]