BIO & STORIES

Clynthia Burton Graham is a passionate writer who explores emotional, impactful, and defining moments in the lives of people of color. From listening to her aunt’s, grandmothers, and mother, while hiding under the kitchen table, and slinking beneath the neighborhood barber shop window to listen to her father and his brothersshooting the breeze, she cultivated the art of oral storytelling in her prose.

She is a MFA graduate from the Creative Writing & Publishing Arts Program at the University of Baltimore, where she resides. Her work has been recognized by the Maryland Writer’s Association and the Hurston/Wright Foundation. Below see some of her publications:

Never Not Broken Friday Feature: Clynthia Burton Graham (torchliteraryarts.org)

Grandma’s Hands/ http://www.rigorous-mag.com/v4i3/clynthia-burton-graham.html

My Sister Stacy/Reedsy Prompts 2020/ https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/contests/32/submissions/10568/#

Death Trumps War/The Sirens CallEzine2019/ http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/pdfs/SirensCallEZine_August2019.pdf

Alco Enfamay/Rigorous Magazine/http://www.rigorous-mag.com/v3i2/clynthia-burton-graham.html 2019

Tunnel Vision/Pen in Hand Journal 2018/https://marylandwriters.starchapter.com/images/PIH-January-2019-online.pdf

Miss Sage’s Anniversary Celebration/ Auburn Avenue 2018/ https://mailchi.mp/9668bbc61274/auburn-avenue-issue-v-autumnwinter-2018-now-live-689457?e=9becf36900

Tree Lovers/The Academy of Hearts and Minds 2018/ https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/summer-contest-fiction-1st-place/

Dinosaur Tracks/daCunha Global literary magazine 2018

Ruby’s Wall Singer/The Academy of Hearts and Mind/ https://academyoftheheartandmind.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/2nd-place-of-the-story-contest/ 2018

Unlikely Arrow/ Persimmon Tree Literary Journal 2017/ https://persimmontree.org/fall-2017/unlikely-arrow/

Scatter Road/Pilcrow & Dagger 2017