 Cindy
Keen Reynders was born in Portland, Oregon
and has lived all over the United States and
also in Japan. She has visited Canada, the Philippines,
Samoa and New Zealand and the travels have given her an appreciation
of other cultures.
Cindy
enjoys crocheting, reading, garage sales and other hobbies
along with volunteer work, which she performed with the
Red Cross and numerous other charitable
organizations. Writing has been, and always will be, the one true passion
that lights a fire deep down in her soul. Growing up, she
discovered she loved words
and found that she had an aptitude for stringing them together into sentences.
Over
the years, she has won or placed in various writing contests.
She has
also written for and edited numerous newsletters. Additionally, she has
sold several non-fiction magazine articles to “True West” and “Wild
West.” As she raised her children, she always found time to read
to them and tried to instill her love of the written word into their lives.
She hopes
to carry on this tradition with her grandchildren.
Cindy
currently lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming with her husband Rich
whose family has lived in the state for generations. She
has a grown daughter
and son-in-law,
two grown step-daughters and two grown sons.
At
one time, she had three poodles that matched the color of
her carpet. She now has one poodle-shih tzu mix that likes
to “eat” the carpet. Add
to the mix two granddaughters who keep everyone in stitches and as
you can imagine, her home is filled with lots of love and
laughter.
In
addition to keeping track of her extended clan, which includes
three sisters, two brothers, her father, step-mother and
numerous nieces
and nephews, Cindy
works for Laramie County School District 1 (LCSD1) in Cheyenne. She
is a marketing specialist in the district’s Community Relations
department and writes feature articles for the LCSD1 Public Schools
Chronicle, which has a circulation
of approximately 40,000 readers. She has found that her family and
friends inspire her to explore human nature and she believes this
has enabled her to
draw out all aspects of human behavior in her books.
Her
future goals include being able travel more as time allows
and to write, write, write. She constantly challenges herself
to develop
more
entertaining
plots, characters and settings. Nothing pleases her more than to
be able to tell a good story. If it touches someone’s heartstrings
and makes them laugh or cry, then she knows she's done her job.
Web Site:
www.cindykeenreynders.com
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