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Cinthia Ritchie

Author of "Malnourished: A Memoir of Sisterhood and Hunger" and "Dolls Behaving Badly"

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Not writing in Philly (but obsessing nevertheless)

I left Tucson last week, on a morning where the temps reached 80 degrees before noon. We took a fast run around the university and then my partner and I headed for the airport. He took a flight back home to Anchorage and I headed to Philly to visit with my sister and mother for… Read More Not writing in Philly (but obsessing nevertheless)

April 6, 2015April 5, 2015 cinthiaritchie4 Comments

Writing up in the mountains

I often wonder how people who live in big cities write. Not how they write, since writing can be done anywhere (I wrote a passage for my first novel Dolls Behaving Badly on the back of receipts propped up against a cantaloupe at the supermarket) but how they find the inspiration to write when they’re surrounded by… Read More Writing up in the mountains

February 6, 2014February 6, 2014 cinthiaritchie5 Comments

Why is it so hard to write a novel?

I’m on the last half of the last chapter of my second novel Waiting For My Daughter’s Ghost and I’m stuck, I’m flailing. I have no idea what I’m doing. It suddenly strikes me at how enormous this all is, creating an imaginary world and then populating it with people, building relationships and then guiding those… Read More Why is it so hard to write a novel?

November 15, 2013November 14, 2013 cinthiaritchie6 Comments

Why I can’t finish my novel

I can’t finish my second novel, Waiting For My Daughter’s Ghost. I have it written and edited, up to the last chapter. I even have the last chapter outlined and more than enough segments in rough-draft to basically finish the book, but I can’t do it. For the longest time I wondered why: Why was I balking? Why didn’t I… Read More Why I can’t finish my novel

October 24, 2013 cinthiaritchieLeave a comment

Two weeks

Uh-oh. Dolls Behaving Badly releases in two weeks. That’s fourteen days. 336 hours. 20160 minutes. Gulp! I am scared and excited to the point of mania. I can’t sleep. Last night I stayed up the whole night researching book publicity trends. Forget the fact that I stayed up all night a few nights ago doing… Read More Two weeks

January 22, 2013January 22, 2013 cinthiaritchieLeave a comment

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My quirky Alaskan novel, optioned for film by actor Elizabeth Mitchell.

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Recent and upcoming publications

Running into Danger on an Alaskan Trail  in New York Times Magazine.

Sled dog love in Alaska Magazine

Crazy, I knew in Silver Birch Press

Anchorage–A Gift of Diversity, Alaska Dispatch News

“Ten Truths (and ten lies)” upcoming in Deaf Poets Society.

“Second to the last time,” “Beluga Point, Alaska” and “The Weatherwoman had a Boob Job” upcoming in Breath and Shadow.

“How She Lived” upcoming in Grayson Books Forgotten Women anthology

“Conversations before communion,” “Wild breaths / and this” in GNU journal.

Upon hearing that a writing friend had died in Anchorage Press

Paperdolls in Clementine Unbound

Savages in Panoplyzine

Stuttering in Barking Sycamores

Portland in Barking Sycamores

Dead Things in Postcard Poetry and Prose

Fucking a Fisherman in Seward, Alaska in Damfino Press

Milk in 100 Words

Running Trails, Alaska in The Skinny Poetry Journal

Portland II in 101 Words

“Mary With PMS” in Into the Void

“Mary Poppins: The Third Show” and “I’m not you’re baby” in Theories of HER anthology

Join me on my Alaska running adventures at: Cinthia Runs Alaska

Hatcher Pass Marathon race report

Hatcher Pass Marathon race report

It’s been a while. Okay, it’s been like over half a year. Maybe longer. I’m afraid to check. I need to get my ass in gear, I really do. I have three race reports to post, one from way back in April (you remember April, right?). I’ll start in the middle with the Hatcher Pass […]

Sled dog races

Sled dog races

This past weekend we pulled on our boots and warm coats and ventured out to the Campbell Tract trails to watch the Fur Rondy World Championship Sled Dog Races. We walked back into the woods and stood at the side of the trail, no one else around. Everything so quiet; we could hear snow fall […]

Still running, after all this time

Still running, after all this time

Holy, holy, I haven’t posted here in forever. How did that happen? How did time get so far away from me? The good news is that I’m still running. I never stopped running; I simply stopped writing about running and I’m not sure why. Maybe I didn’t have anything to say. Maybe I had too […]

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