Cydney Chadwick

Background

Cydney Chadwick was born on July 12, 1959, in Oakland, California, United States.

Education

Chadwick attended Sonoma State University, as well as Kootenay School of Writing in 1996.

Career

Chadwick began her career at the company Chadwick Marketing in Penngrove, California, holding a position of a regional sales manager for eight years from 1984. She also served as an executive director at the organization Syntax Projects for the Arts. From 1988 to 2005 she was a publisher of Avec Books including titles which included translations of Russian and French poets to books of post-postmodern feminist stories.

Chadwick is a freelance typesetter, designer editor and manuscript consultant. Her writings include such titles as Enemy Clothing, Persistent Disturbances, Oeuvres, The Gift Horse’s Mouth, Interims, Inside the Hours, Draconic Nodes, Flesh and Bone, and Cut and Run. Generally, Chadwick is the author of eleven books.

Achievements

• Chadwick is a winner of 1995 Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Writing. She was also the winner of the New American Fiction Competition in 1998. Her collection of short stories Flesh and Bone won the Independent Publisher Book Award in 2002.
  
  Chadwick's stories have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.

Works

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  • Cut and Run

    (Fiction. Chadwick's narrative explores the ironies of pow...)

    2005
  • Enemy Clothing 1993
  • Persistent Disturbances 1994
  • Interims 1997
  • Inside the Hours 1998

Membership

Chadwick is a member of the PEN West.

• California Arts Council Creative Writing Fellowship , United States

  1997