Cynthia Robinson lives in San Francisco, where she works as a part-time advertising shill, and a full-time raconteur.

Her debut novel, The Dog Park Club, is a noir comedy. It’s the first installment in a series about the reluctant adventures of Max Bravo—an opera singer whose real life adventures are even more dramatic than his stage roles. The sequel, The Barbary Galahad, is coming in 2011.

Also currently in stores, you can find Cynthia’s short story “Program with a Happy Ending” in the 2010 First Thrills anthology.

Cynthia has an MFA in creative writing from University of San Francisco, where she also taught fiction writing. She was nominated for the Best New American Voices award 2007 and Best of the Web, Humor 2008.

Cynthia often gets the feeling she is being shadowed by a small, Peter Lorre-ish figure. This, nearly always, turns out to be her pug, Suzie.