Biography university of hawaii bookstore manager

Cynthia Chin-Lee and her four older siblings were born and raised in Washington, D.C. by her father, a medical doctor, and mother, a homemaker/artist. Cynthia began writing for fun when she was in the sixth grade. "I liked writing poetry and scribbling in my journal because I found it comforting and therapeutic. I still write for that reason and because I like playing with words."

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Cynthia attended Harvard University, where she studied East Asian Languages. She spent her junior year abroad at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University. After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude, Cynthia accepted a graduate fellowship at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, and studied at the University of Hawaii.

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​She began a technical writing career by writing for banks and high-tech companies. She has also written freelance articles for magazines and newspapers, as well as taught writing classes at community colleges and universities. She currently works as an information development manager at Oracle (Redwood Shores, CA), where she also volunteers in women's leadership events and as global ally chair for OPEN: Oracle Pride Employee Network (LGBTQ and allies).

Cynthia's first children's book,  (Polychrome Publish