Cynthia Black is the President and Editor-in-Chief of Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., a pioneer in Mind, Body & Spirit books, active in developing and promoting the importance of spiritual lifestyles and global wisdom for the past 25 years. Cynthia is responsible for sourcing new book projects and the editorial and publicity aspects of the company. She is also a partner in a new venture, Beyond Distribution LLC which produces and distributes movies and other spirit-based products. She is the recipient of Advertising Age Magazine's 2007 Entertainment Marketer of the Year award as well as one of Independent Publisher's Ten Outstanding Women of Independent Publishing award in 2006.
She is the co-author of Spiritual Writing: From Inspiration to Publication, and editor of two anthologies by mature women writers, Our Turn, Our Time and Mid-Life Clarity. Her perspectives on publishing have been featured in Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, The Oregonian and The Costco Connection.
