Authors/Artists
Cindy Wright
Cindy Wright loves writing, cooking, gardening, making and creating. She has written her way through life's ups and downs. She's been a cook, a teacher, a stay at home mom, and a caretaker. Her first book, The Mother's of Us All was written primarily during her years at home with her children. It is a collection of short stories and poems which explore the complexities of motherhood through both fiction and personal experience. When her younger child entered middle school, she returned to the workforce as a special education teacher. After six years in the public school system, she started a business where she taught and tutored privately. She is happily retired from teaching and continues to pursue her creatives adventures. She lives with her husband in Winston-Salem, NC. Her latest book, The Privilege To Grieve: Settling Into A New Forever, is about her experiences with grief after her older child Milo passed away at the age of 24.
Milo Wright
Milo Wright was a poet, a story teller, and a true original, who struggled with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, social awkwardness, gender fluidity, and a willingness to trust that often backfired. Words were their most loyal friend. Milo, born Allegra, began reading before entering school and writing poetry and stories as soon as they figured out how to form the letters. Their poetry is filled with descriptions of these struggles as well as their amazing ability to forgive, to love people for who they were, to try again, and to hang on to hope. Milo, then going by Charlotte, graduated from Middle College at Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. On this campus they found safety, a few friends, and their first writing group. This group helped Milo hone their skills and learn to speak to their audience. Another place where Milo found refuge was Trade Street in Winston-Salem, home to The Arts District that often played the role of muse. Whatever their current name of choice—Milo, Charlotte, Ravi, or Allegra—or whatever stage they were passing through, there was someone or someplace on Trade Street to share a conversation or their latest writing or to simply find inspiration for the next poem or play. During their last year, Milo had begun to assemble their writing with the hope of publication. Their life was cut short by an undetected heart defect. After their death, Milo's mother knew the book had to be completed. She searched computers, notebooks, and files for poems and drawings, adding those to what she had rescued over the years from Milo's trash. The result is this intimate compilation of poetry which spans Allegra/Milo's life.