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Cinthia Ritchie

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

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Poetry acceptance, and lots of Tucson love

Well, it finally happened. Among my many, many rejection letters I found (gasp!) an acceptance. Wild Violet Magazine wishes to publish “The Second to the Last Time.” It’s a prose poem with a killer ending (or at least that’s my humble opinion) and the editor said that it really spoke to her. So that’s one… Read More Poetry acceptance, and lots of Tucson love

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017 cinthiaritchie20 Comments

If you give a moose crab apples

When my son was young one of his favorite books was “If You Give a Moose a Muffin,” probably because moose often wandered into our yard. It’s a common occurrence here in Anchorage and sometimes I forget that most people don’t experience such things, that what we perceive as ordinary, people in other parts of… Read More If you give a moose crab apples

September 9, 2017September 11, 2017 cinthiaritchie12 Comments

Wordless Wednesday: Baby moose in the yard

When my partner woke me up yesterday, at a ridiculously late hour (because I had stayed up all night writing again, you see), I ran downstairs, grabbed my camera and excitedly began shooting. Because, really, is there anything cuter than baby moose? There was another calf around too but it was behind the woodpile and… Read More Wordless Wednesday: Baby moose in the yard

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017 cinthiaritchie6 Comments

Moose on the loose

It’s almost fall up here in Alaska. Which means that the moose are moving around more, eager to snatch up the last of the green leaves/shoots/brush before the oh-so-cold and oh-so-dark winter slams down upon us. There are a few moose that frequent our neighborhood. We see them when we walk the dog and run… Read More Moose on the loose

September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 cinthiaritchie16 Comments

More moose

Moose appear in my writing a lot. They are such a large part of life up here, and we see them everywhere: In our yards and while driving down the street, in grocery story parking lots, on the trails, at the park and even in school playgrounds. This mama moose visited our yard a few… Read More More moose

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 cinthiaritchie26 Comments

My new book! Available now at Raised Voice Press, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and IndieBound.

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 TrailĀ  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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