Cynthia Gregory

Cynthia Gregory is an award-winning writer and author of Journaling As Sacred Practice: an Act Of Extreme Bravery (2016), What Is Possible From Here (2021), LOVE NOTES From the SOUL (2024), and LOVE NOTES From the SOUL 2.0 (2025). She is a member of the California Writer’s Club, Redwood Writers Chapter, and edited their 2023 Anthology: ON FIRE.

Cynthia’s mission is to help shift-makers and cultural creatives translate their meaningful life experiences into compelling stories. She does this through hands-on writing workshops, individualized author coaching, and transformational writing retreats that support writers at every stage. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Gonzaga University and her master's degree in literature from Mill's College.

Her enigmatic short stories have appeared in a range of publications, including The Sun, Glimmer Train and The Briar Cliff Review The Briar Cliff Review, Santa Barbara Review, The Ear, and Central PA. She took second place in the Writer's Digest Fiction Contest and first place in the Glimmer Train family matters competition for “Melting At Both Ends,” a story about climate change and friendship, and first place in the Mark Twain Short Fiction Prize for her story, “Baby Blood,” which explores the complex and mysterious sisterhood of parenting medically frail children.

Cynthia coaches entrepreneurs and community leaders to develop literary legacies in the form of personal histories, works of creative nonfiction, and professional memoirs. Her motto is: “Allow your story to take up space in the world.”

She lives in California’s Sonoma Valley with her rescue pups, Winston the Wonder Dog, and the fabulous Mr. Blue.