Cynthia Blair Kane received her BA from Bard College and MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has worked with Michael Gross, New York Times best-selling author, on 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building and Rogues Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum. She is the former Senior Editor of two literary magazines, A Gathering of the Tribes and Lumina, and the former Editor-in-Chief of MAP Magazine. She has also worked as the Marketing Director for Barbara Probst Solomon’s literary magazine, The Reading Room. She is currently a Developmental Editor with Manning Publications, a Madrid-based blogger for EuroCheapo.com, and the Madrid specialist for BlackBook magazine and city guides. She is also a regular blogger for the Jerusalem Post. Cynthia is in the process of starting OpenBook Editing, which will be a boutique development editing agency for software developers, fiction and non fiction writers, and non-native English speakers.
Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, and journals, including Wandermelon, VegNews, Pregnancy, Yoga Journal, Bridal Guide, The Columbus Dispatch, The Independent, The New Standard, InMadrid, Recessionwire, and MAP Magazine. Her short story “Curly” appeared in the anthology Submerged: Tales from the Basin (2008).
Cynthia and Beau Macksoud recently finished Take a Hike: The Best 50 Routes in the Community of Madrid (Ediciones la Librería, May 2011) They also started a guiding company called Hiking in The Community of Madrid, which has been written up in Gadling and the AOL guide to Madrid.
