Cynthia Hearne Darling has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary and masters' degrees in social work and public administration. She recieved a poetry award in Fairfa...view moreCynthia Hearne Darling has a BA in English from the College of William and Mary and masters' degrees in social work and public administration. She recieved a poetry award in Fairfax County, Virginia, for her poem Mississippi Mother.She spent years writing family histories of patients in the mental hospital where she worked as a social worker. Give her Shakespeare, the opera and some good crossword puzzles and she'll be content. She is the author of Forty-Nine Poems, Shunned, a novel, and is finishing a story about Georgetown, D.C., in the sixties. She has worked on Indian reservations and the U.S. Department of Justice. She prefers the reservations.view less