Cynthia Frank has more than twenty-five years experience in writing, publishing, editing, and teaching. She is on the education committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and has presented workshops for Publishing University, University of Denver Publishing Institute, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, American Society of Journalists and Authors, National Association of Science Writers, California Poets in the Schools, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, and the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association.

Her articles, essays, book reviews, and poetry have appeared in books, magazines, newsletters and anthologies, including City Miner; Western Edge; Writing Our Way Out of the Dark; A&E Magazine of Mendocino County; The Real Estate Magazine; Wood, Water, Air and Fire; Publishers Marketing Association Newsletter/IBPA Independent; Bookzone.com; Mendocino Portfolio; and SPAN (Small Publishers Association of North America newsletter). She is co-founder of Rain Straight Down Poetry and New Performance, and has produced reading series, broadsides, and manuscript competitions in Mendocino County.

For two years, she ran The Well, a community coffeehouse and six-night-a-week cabaret, in the village of Mendocino. She received an "IPPY Award" as one of Ten Outstanding Women of Independent Publishing. In her "spare" time she conducts the Mendocino Women's Choir and is an avid organic gardener.