Cynthia Sally Haggard was born and reared in Surrey, England.
About 40 years ago she surfaced in the United States, inhabiting the Mid-Atlantic region as she wound her way through four careers:
- violinist,
- cognitive scientist,
- medical writer, and
- novelist.
Cynthia graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge MA, in June 2015.
Her first novel, Thwarted Queen, the true story behind Season One of “Game of Thrones” won the 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for audiobook.
Her second novel, Farewell My Life, a Cinderella-ish tale with not-so-charming princes who inhabit the edgy setting of 1920s Berlin, won the 2021 Independent Press Award for Women’s Fiction.
When she’s not annoying everyone by insisting her fictional characters are more real than they are, Cynthia likes to go for long walks, knit something glamorous, cook in her wonderful kitchen, and play the piano.