Cynthia Green
has been moving around the world since her early years. She studied history, textiles and languages, and all of the above merges in her writing. She is the author of blue feet monsoon (her first novel) and is currently working on Snow Monkey, the standalone sequel to blue feet monsoon.
She is also coauthoring the fourth edition of Third Culture Kids, Growing Up Among Worlds (to be released 2026) with Ruth Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock.
Cynthia also collaborates on commercial and academic projects relating to third culture kids and cross-cultural kids as well as the cultural significance of textiles.
Fiction
A girl. Three passports. Some grannies. A monsoon or two. And a well-traveled sarong.
Anoushka never inconveniences anyone—not even when her parents set off for jungles and leave her behind, most recently in country-number-seven with The Montgomery's. But that is about to change. The Montgomery's may be an institution in post-colonial Singapore, but not even they can stop all hell breaking loose when Anoushka takes up with the old ladies at Saint Beatrice Hospital Elderly Ward.
With Po-Po's old mahjong set turning up and Anoushka's father Peter discovering what Mr Montgomery has been up to, a world of family secrets begins to unfold. Anoushka’s life is about to take a drastic turn.
Praise for blue feet monsoon
‘This is an immersive tapestry of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Each thread invites us to explore a rich landscape—both in terms of physical geography and human experience in which time, places, cultures and people interact. In other words, I freaking loved it!
-MATHIEU GAGNON, PHD, TCK Research Podcast
‘I enjoyed this fast paced book about change and movement.’
-KATHLEEN GAMBLE, author of Expat Alien
‘A sparkling transportation across generations and cultural worlds that is as moving as it is funny. You won’t want to put it down.’
-RUTH VAN REKEN, author of Letters Never Sent and Third Cultural Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds
Non-fiction
I'm currently coauthoring the fourth edition of Third Culture Kids, Growing Up Among Worlds (to be released 2026) with Ruth Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock.
A Selection of Articles
EAST MEETS WEST Amrita Sher-Gil’s fabric of the Paris years,’ Selvedge Magazine