Cynthia Green is a historian philosophically exploring cross-cultural and international lived experience and how culture travels.

She grew up in Colombia and Singapore, got an MA in history in the US (Emory University), studied language in Russia, and worked in radio and TV in Japan and product launch in the Netherlands and France.

Author of 100+ non-fiction works and the Blue Feet Monsoon series, where she uses fiction as a soft tool for delving into multigenerational intercultural experience, Cynthia also hosts the Conversations With Cynthia podcast on Youtube and speaks at intercultural events. Details below.

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Events

Dastur Ethno Space Almaty, Kazakhstan (April, 2025)

FIGT Roaming Readers International Book Club: Blue Feet Monsoon, Author Q&A (November 2025)

SIETAR-Polska/SIETAR France Virtual Book Club: “Blue Feet Monsoon—exploring the experience of growing up interculturally through fiction” (04 Feb 2026 18:00 - 19:30 Europe/Warsaw)

SIETAR France Webinaire Made in France et Ailleurs: “L’expérience interculturelle et notre relation à nous-mêmes.” (15 avr 2026 18:00 - 19:30 Europe/Paris)

Fiction

A girl, some grannies, a monsoon or two…

Singapore, 1981

Anoushka has lived in seven countries without inconveniencing anyone—but no one can stop all hell breaking loose when she takes up with the old ladies at Saint Beatrice Hospital Elderly Ward.

With Po-Po's old mahjong set turning up, Guy’s indiscretions and the maelstrom building around her, a world of family secrets and opportunities begins to unfold.

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Blue Feet Monsoon is a lyrical debut novel that highlights global voices and cross-cultural 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 Lebar 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