Cynthia Holz is the author of five widely acclaimed novels and a collection of short stories. She was born and raised in New York City and is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the City University of New York. She came to Toronto in 1976 as the Canadian correspondent for Business Week magazine and eventually quit journalism for a career as a fiction writer, bookseller, and part-time writing instructor.

She began publishing short stories in 1980, and since then her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Malahat Review, Descant, Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Coming Attractions 5 and The New Press Anthology #2. Her essays and book reviews can be seen in The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa Citizen, Quill & Quire, and The National Post.

Over the years,she has discussed her work in book clubs and given talks and readings in dozens of places across Canada, everywhere from Toronto's Harbourfront Reading Series and The Prince Edward County Authors Festival to The University of Saskatchewan, Vancouver's Jewish Community Centre, Winnipeg's International Writers Festival and Paragraphe bookstore in Montreal.

She has served on writing awards and grant competition juries, was Writer-in-Residence for the Toronto Public Library in 1999, and taught creative writing at Ryerson University in Toronto for nearly twenty years.

Cynthia Holz has served on the Authors' Committee and the Strategic Directions Committee of the Writers' Trust of Canada and is a member of PEN Canada and The Writers' Union of Canada. She lives in Toronto.

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Selected Publications

Benevolence. Toronto: Knopf Canada, www.randomhouse.ca, 2011.

A Good Man. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, www.thomas-allen.com, 2003.

Semi Detached. Toronto: Patrick Crean Editions/Key Porter Books, www.keyporter.com, 1999. Also published in England by Piatkus Publishers, 2000.

The Other Side. Toronto: Second Story Press, www.sumachpress.com, 1997.

Onlyville. Erin , Ontario: The Porcupine’s Quill, http://porcupinesquill.ca, 1994.

Home Again. Toronto: Random House Canada, 1989.

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