Cynthia Swanson is an author and a designer. She has published short fiction in numerous journals and has been a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut novel The Bookseller was published to critical acclaim in March 2015 and is being translated into 11 languages. The Bookseller was an Indie Next selection for March 2015, a 2015 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction, a nominee for the MPIBA Reading the West 2015 Award, and is a finalist for the Colorado Authors' League 2015 Award. Cynthia lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and children.