CGHoelscher Profile

Cyndie Goins Hoelscher has devoted much of her life to correcting misrepresentations in American South and Southeastern history with emphasis on marginal, mixed race and multi-ethnic cultures. Her essay, "Judging the Goings/Goyens/Goins family of Moore County, North Carolina 1764-1856," was selected for publication in the book Carolina Genesis: Beyond the Color Line (BackinTyme Publishing, Palm Coast FL: 2010) and is available on Amazon. (http://www.mixedracestudies.org/?p=18213) .  This book has been used in mixed race studies curriculum in universities and graces many research libraries throughout the Southeast.  Her creative non-fiction has been published in diverse journals, including a winner of the Margaret Alexander Walker Prize, College Language Association, Spellman College, Atlanta, Georgia and the Phi Theta Kappa Hallmark Award for Cemetery People, Anaheim, California.  Her fiction stories have graced Cezanne's Carrot for Blue Period and her poetry has been included in The Wonder of Love Anthology of Poetry, published by Remus House, Peterborough, UK, "Waiting for the Rainbow," (Anchor Books: UK), "A Caregivers Treasure Box, (Second Wind Research for Pumonary Fibrosis) and "Something to Dream About," Birmingham Journal of Arts (http://birminghamartsjournal.com/pdf/baj4-1.pdf) pg 34.

Cyndie Goins Hoelscher lives in Corpus Christi, Texas with her husband, Ronnie, her father, Clarence Leon Goins and her cat, Lady Tiva Jackson von Hoelscher.