Based in Massachusetts and Maine, Cindy A. Littlefield is a former finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. Working on her second novel, she is seeking representation for her first, entitled Leaving an Island, the story of a hotel desk clerk who estranges herself from the father she believes deceived her and flees on a sailboat with an enigmatic islander obsessed with his own father’s death at sea. Cindy is a content developer for print and online publishers, including Disney Interactive Media and EDDA USA.