Clynthia's profile
Clynthia Burton Graham is a passionate fiction writer who explores the emotional, impactful, and pivotal moments in the lives of people of color. Her inspiration has been honed through the years. From hiding under the kitchen table listening to “grown folk’s business” to walking the streets of Baltimore conversing with the homeless and the privileged, she has cultivated the art of storytelling in her prose.
She received honorable mention for her story, Miss Sage’s Anniversary from the 2016 Hurston/Wright College Writer’s Award. The judge, prize-winning writer and professor Tiphanie Yanique, said: “This story was incredibly achieved on the level of character development, plot and dialogue. Miss Sage herself appears immediately as a fully formed and complex human being.” Her story, God’s Will, placed second in the 2006 Maryland Writer’s Association Short Works Contest. She currently is working on three short story collections: Baltimore City Blues; Dark Roads; and Over 50 Love Stories. Her novel-in-progress, Baby’s Bones, focuses on how the shackles and devastation of slavery reach far beyond Emancipation Day. Her short stories have been published in Persimmon Tree, Pilcrow and Dagger, Skelter Journal among others.
Clynthia is in her final year of pursuing her MFA at the University of Baltimore. After a thirty-year career serving youth, families and communities in the nonprofit world, she now dedicates her time to writing and honing her craft. She has been a creative writing instructor for Writopia Labs, Writers in Baltimore Schools, and will be an instructor with Writing Outside the Fence in the spring of 2018. She resides in Baltimore City.
She received honorable mention for her story, Miss Sage’s Anniversary from the 2016 Hurston/Wright College Writer’s Award. The judge, prize-winning writer and professor Tiphanie Yanique, said: “This story was incredibly achieved on the level of character development, plot and dialogue. Miss Sage herself appears immediately as a fully formed and complex human being.” Her story, God’s Will, placed second in the 2006 Maryland Writer’s Association Short Works Contest. She currently is working on three short story collections: Baltimore City Blues; Dark Roads; and Over 50 Love Stories. Her novel-in-progress, Baby’s Bones, focuses on how the shackles and devastation of slavery reach far beyond Emancipation Day. Her short stories have been published in Persimmon Tree, Pilcrow and Dagger, Skelter Journal among others.
Clynthia is in her final year of pursuing her MFA at the University of Baltimore. After a thirty-year career serving youth, families and communities in the nonprofit world, she now dedicates her time to writing and honing her craft. She has been a creative writing instructor for Writopia Labs, Writers in Baltimore Schools, and will be an instructor with Writing Outside the Fence in the spring of 2018. She resides in Baltimore City.
