Cynthia Flood
Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940)[citation needed] is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up in Toronto (with 2 years in England).[citation needed] After attending the University of Toronto she spent some years in the US, and came to British Columbia in 1969.[citation needed]
She was active in many socialist, feminist, anti-war, and environmental groups, and in the faculty union while an English instructor at Langara College.[citation needed] She also briefly taught creative writing in Simon Fraser University's Writing & Publishing program.[citation needed]
Cynthia Flood's first two collections of short stories are The Animals In Their Elements (Talonbooks, 1987) and My Father Took A Cake To France (Talonbooks, 1992).[1] The title story of the latter won the Journey Prize in 1990.[1] Her short fiction has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines and widely anthologized, and has appeared in Best Canadian Stories three times.[2] Her first novel was Making A Stone of the Heart (Key Porter, 2002).
Her latest collection, The English Stories was published in April 2009 by Biblioasis. Reviewing the book for the Toronto Globe and Mail, Lynda Grace Philippsen described it as "perfect summer reading. Without being light or trite it can be picked up and put down with ease, and the characters linger with the reader long after."[3] These short fictions are set in 1950s England. One, "Religious Knowledge," won the National Magazine Gold Award in 2000, after its publication in PRISM International. Another, "Learning To Dance," is included in Best Canadian Stories 2008, edited by John Metcalf.
Flood's new collection of short fictions, "Red Girl Rat Boy," will appear from Biblioasis in September 2013. One story, "Addresses," will appear in the 2013 edition of "Best Canadian Stories", ed John Metcalf, from Oberon.
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