Cindy Rinne was born in Oakland, CA and grew up in Kansas City, MO. She returned to California to finish college and to raise a family. She has a degree in Graphic Design. Cindy lives in San Bernardino, CA and is a multidisciplinary creative including poetry, fiber art, performance poetry, and zines. She enjoys connecting with community. Nature, myth, and other stories combine in magical realism.Her first full-length poetry book, "Speaking Through Sediment," is a collaboration with Michael Cooper. She wove together their "two unique voices, one intensely lyrical, the other gracefully narrative," (Juan Delgado). They both like to explore the poem's design on the page and to push language.Cindy's first solo chapbook "Spider with Wings" released by Jamii Publishing. This is a book of short poems written like collages. "The Natural World locked antlers with Human Intervention, and they really went at it. And before the dust settled and a winner was announced, Rinne scrambled into the fray, collected the images, and collaged taut, spare poems from them." -Amy Pickworth author of "Bigfoot for Women." "Quiet Lantern," a novel in verse, is Cindy's debut full-length book of poetry. "Quiet Lantern is at once delicate and fierce," writes Gayle Brandeis, author of "The Book of Dead Birds." It's music, puppets, origami, family, a spirit-boat, a quest, and secrets set in Hue, Vietnam."Breathe In Daisy / Breathe Out Stones" is a full-length poetry collection. "Nature speaks to us in a language beyond language. The past whispers in, teaching us-warning us-about the present. We travel the world from old to new, blending together in a physical manifestation of time, myth, and symbol. We are weaved into the story, melding to these narratives, narratives that are on the verge of bursting into flames. - Lawrence Eby, author of "Flight of August.""Listen to the Codex" is part of the Native Blossoms Chapbook Series published by Yak Press. This is a chapbook about finding true home, whether by a goddess, a robot, or myself. "Cindy Rinne's poems are 'arms of flight,' ceremonial offerings that create a reality both ancient and modern...taste a seed that holds 'the soul of burning earth.'" - Cynthia Anderson author of "Waking Life."Her second novel in verse is "Moon of Many Petals" based in Manzanar, CA and Japan. A story told by a displaced family, an unborn child, a butterfly geisha, a sparrow, and others. "Moon of Many Petals transports the reader to the bitter days and lonely night of Manzanar." Diane Adams author of "Love Is." Published by Cholla Needles Press."Mapless" is a collection of myth, narrative, poetry, art, and song that expresses the yearning of love. A stitched ghostfish is both mother and child, human and god, and finally connection. This collage follows the journey of the ghostfish through the ever shifting path of experience towards wholeness and joy. A collaborative art and poetry chapbook by Cindy Rinne and Nikia Chaney. Full color chapbook."Knife Me Split Memories" is a chapbook about survivors. "The mother asks, Why? Clay Vessel Woman replies, We don't always know." Full color with tan pages and Cindy's photographs. Published by Cholla Needles Press."Letters Under Rock" Poetry Performance full-length book is co-authored with Bory Thach. The poems are collected from many landscapes and faith traditions. There are rituals, ghosts, forest spirits, mollusk that tells a story, dragon, heron, and more. This story reaches across time and space told in love letters left under a rock of an orphan Wanderer and a Nomad. Full color with illustrations of a performance where they wear Cindy's stitched costumes. Also includes her fiber art inspired by these poems. Published by Elyssar Press."silence between drumbeats" chapbook contains the theme of isolation with hope to awaken and fly. Includes: canyon dancer, blue deer, Indigenous women, cactus spines, jellyfish, and Storyteller moon. "Here, listening is the odyssey, silence is the resonance, and we exist within the geological moment, "intercepting sound." — Cynthia Alessandra Briano"Today in the Forest" full color chapbook. "Cindy has recorded and given us a magic scroll. Toti has drawn and given us the map. We need to be here for hope." - Kath Abela Wilson. "An ancient world is endangered, on the brim of destruction or perhaps destroyed (we don't know). The Moon Goddess is a protective and benevolent figure that `contains` and animates the entire book.". - Toti O'Brien."Words Become Ashes: An Offering." "While close to this planet, Cindy pulls colors out of the cosmos to stitch these deeply moving poems together." - Alice Pero. Full color chapbook. Cindy's fiber art and poetry comprise this hybrid collection. The Feather Ladder" is an original myth/ novel in verse. The Feather Keeper discovers his destiny. Creatures help build a feather ladder connecting earth and sky. "Today on Two Planets" is book two in the "Today" series. "Like a scroll unfurling, "Today on Two Planets" discloses the next chapter of Rinne’s creation myth—of a new society, where the most diverse individuals find ways to harmonize and join forces, hence accomplishing magic—of a new self, capable of reconciling past damage with hope, fear with daring, helplessness with openness in the only place that allows for those opposites to coexist: the present tense. Full color chapbook."Dancing Through the Fire Door: Guided Journeys in Art and Poetry" is a hybrid collection of poetry by Cindy Rinne and art by Heather Rinne and A.E. Van Fleet. "I am more than my body is the title of a poem that runs midway through this thoughtful, visually stunning collection. It is the pivot on which the journey rests." - Lois P. Jones. Each poem and artwork has a Key Word and there's Journeys to take throughout the book. Full color book.Read more about this authorRead less about this author