Flowers, Mirrors, and Garmonbozia: Reflections on Cassie and Euphoria
I confess: I love Euphoria’s Cassie Howard-Jacobs.
Cynthia’s Afflictions: BPD & Literary Addictions
Creative nonfiction and fiction about mental illness, literature, and other provocations.
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Schooled in a Self
I've been playing around with different versions of this essay about how BPD inspired and was inspired by my literature research and teaching. This may or may not be the final version.
My Favorite Books of 2025
This reading year was gardened with delights.
Memory Painting with EMDR
Trigger warning: This episode mentions suicide attempts.
Fiction and Memoirs Were Covering Health Way Before the Pandemic
First published in The Conversation (Canada) on March 22, 2021Cynthia’s Afflictions: BPD & Literary Addictions is a reader-supported publication.
The Lost Voice: A Florida Fairy Tale
First published in the spring 2020 issue of storySouth
The Empress's New Clothes
This short story is an experiment concocted while I was reading a book about Walter Benjamin's fashion writings.
How Women Writers Are Reinventing Freud
First published in Electric Literature on August 6, 2019
Reading Sickness
First published in Entropy (now defunct) on November 20, 2018
The New National Literature of Canada Is Being Written by Women
First published in Electric Literature on July 10, 2019