Cyndy Szekeres is an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than 130 books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams. Best known for her anthropomorphic animal illustrations, she won the 1969 AIGA Award for Moon Mouse.

Cynewulf is one of twelve Old English poets known by name, and one of four whose work is known to survive today. He presumably flourished in the 9th century, with possible dates extending into the late 8th and early 10th centuries.

Beatrice Cynthia Freeman, pseudonym of Bea Feinberg, was an American novelist.

Cynthia Haseloff is an American author of western novels.

Cynthia Johnson is an American singer, songwriter and television personality. She is best known as the lead singer of the band Lipps Inc. with the worldwide smash hit "Funkytown".

Cynthia Kadohata is a Japanese American children's writer best known for her young adult novel Kira-Kira which won the Newbery Medal in 2005. She won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2013 for The Thing About Luck.

Cynthia Guerrera Kuhn is an American writer and editor of mystery fiction and a Professor of English at the Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Cynthia Leitich Smith is a New York Times best-selling author of fiction for children and young adults.

Cynthia Lord is an American children's author. Her debut novel Rules was published by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, and was a 2007 Newbery Honor book and winner of the Schneider Family Book Award.

Cynthia Henri McLeod is a Surinamese novelist known for her historic novels and whose debut novel instantly made her one of the most prominent authors of Suriname.