Cyn Vargas’ s short story collection, On The Way, received positive reviews from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Heavy Feather Review, and Necessary Fiction, among others. Book accolades include: Book Scrolling’ s Best Short Story Collections of All Time, Newcity Lit’ s Top 5 Fiction Books by Chicago Authors, Chicago Book Review’ s Favorite Books of
2015, Bustle’ s 11 Short Story Collections Your Book Club Will Love, and the Chicago Writers Association’ s 2015 Book of the Year Honorable Mention.
Cyn’ s prose and essays have been widely published and she received a Top 25 Finalist and Honorable Mention in two of Glimmer Train’ s Short Story Award for New Writers Contests, is the recipient of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in Fiction, Core Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago, on the Board of Directors for Hypertext Studio, and twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Ragdale Foundation. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.
