Historian philosopher exploring culture, textiles & our relationship with ourselves,

Cynthia is a global thought leader on personal approaches to cross-cultural experience and the cultural significance of textiles. She has lived in seven countries across four continents and brings a deeply personal lens to her work on identity and cross-cultural experience. Her journey through history, television, textiles, and languages weaves through her fiction and nonfiction writing.

She is the author of the fictional Blue Feet Monsoon series that explores growing up across cultures.

You’ll find current projects and a non-exhaustive list of some of her published non-fiction below.

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Fiction

A girl, 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.

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Blue Feet Monsoon is a lyrical debut novel that highlights global voices and in-between spaces. It is first in a series of fictional standalone stories that look philosophically at what growing up cross-culturally feels like.

next in the series…

Snow Monkey (coming soon)

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

‘A fun trip through adolescent ups and downs. I enjoyed this fast paced book about change and movement.’

-KATHLEEN GAMBLE, author of Expat Alien

‘Cynthia Green's blue feet monsoon is full of references to Singapore in the 1980s (totally my jam). Who else remembers Paya Labar airport (precursor to fabulous new Changi)? Whoo! I do I do.’

-ANTJE RAUWERDA, PhD, Professor of British and Postcolonial Literatures

‘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

‘So many relatable moments and resonant insights. I have a bunch of little postits sticking out of pages that validated something I’ve thought/felt. I even stayed up ‘til 1:30 in the morning to finish it!’

-LISA LIANG, writer-performer of Alien Citizen

‘A delicious novel that will immerse you in another culture and time through its evocative descriptions and lifelike characters.’

-J.K. AMERSON LÓPEZ, author of Embassy Kid