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Cindy was born in Victoria, BC. With much protest, she was moved to Ottawa, Ont at 14 where she lived with her family for 4 years before their return back to Victoria. 2 years later, without any protest, she returned Solo to Ottawa where she lived for another 4 years. During this time she went to Algonquin College for Dramatic arts and met the love of her life. Cindy returned to BC, after her marriage to said love of her life, to try and jump start Her acting carees. Needless to say that Never happened…and instead she hopped from job to job for 4 years before bowing out of the job market for a while once Their daughter was born.

While in BC, They lived in various Cities in the Greater Vancouver area, trying to find a place That felt like home. In April of 2006, fate came knocking on their 6th door and before they knew it, they were living on the East Coast. To their delight, it was the perfect move; They had finally found a place that felt like home.

Cindy works at Saltwater Sounds in miramichi, NB which has become not just a place of work, but her second home. She can often been seen there with her Daughter who likes to help out in the store when she can.

Cindy credits working at Saltwater sounds as the REason she has Discovered a passion for writing. Her other interests are Acting, bEing crafty, and learing guitar. Miramichi in General, has been very good for her creative Soul.

Happily, The Call of the East Coast was felt by her parents and in April of 2011, they became Fellow CFA’s. They now live only a 6 km jaunt away from Cindy and her family instead of a journey of almost 6000 KM.

Lee Thompson is currently serving as Executive Director of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick. For over 12 years he has acted in various capacities with the WFNB, firstly as a board member, for which he has served four two-year terms, and then in the dual roles as newsletter editor and webmaster. A writer whose fiction has been published in four anthologies, including Random House’s Victory Meat, New Fiction from Atlantic Canada and Vagrant Press’s The Vagrant Revue of New Fiction, and in more than a dozen literary journals across Canada and the US, Lee’s first novel, S. a novel in [xxx] dreams was published in 2008 by Fredericton’s Broken Jaw Press.

Lee has twice been awarded Emerging Artist grants from ARTSNB and one Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He has been active in the Moncton literary scene, serving on the programming committee for the Frye Festival and often organizing readings for the WFNB and for the Attic Owl Reading Series. In 2007, with the desire to publish new and exciting storytellers, Lee started Galleon, a journal of literary fiction.

In addition to writing fiction, Lee is a guitarist and songwriter whose music, under the name Pipher, has been published by Dog Eared Records and Naked Noises.