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Cyn Vargas’ short story collection, On The Way, received positive reviews from Shelf Awareness, Library Journal, Heavy Feather Review, Necessary Fiction, among others. Book accolades include: Book Scrolling’s Best Short Story Collections of All Time, Newcity Lit’s Top 5 Fiction Books by Chicago Authors, Chicago Book Review’s Favorite Books of 2015, Bustle’s 11 Short Story Collections Your Book Club Will Love, and Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Honorable Mention (2015).
Cyn’s prose and essays have been widely published. She received a Top 25 Finalist and Honorable Mention in two of Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers contests, is the recipient of the Guild Literary Complex Prose Award in Fiction, voted Stories Matter Foundation's 2022 Instructor of the Year, Core Faculty in Short Fiction at StoryStudio Chicago, member of the Curatorial Board for the Ragdale Foundation, and on the Board of Directors for Hypertext Studio. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia College Chicago.