Cindy Frenkel's The Plague of the Tender-Hearted (Finishing Line Press) was released during Covid. Her poetry has been published in numerous places, including The New Yorker, Nu?Detroit, The MacGuffin, and Ellipsis. It is also included in two recent anthologies, Poets Speaking to Poets and Divining Dante. Her Dante poem was one of two from America selected for The Poetry Jukebox, a European street art project, that ran for three months in Dublin in 2023. Her work is forthcoming in the premiere issue of Scratchpad, a Canadian magazine.

With over 40 years of experience writing, Cindy's prose has appeared in numerous publications, ranging from Vanity Fair to WIRED.com to The New York Observer, where she was a columnist. During more than a decade of teaching, Cindy is experienced in instructing classes at every level, from elementary school through to universities, so has a broad, unique perspective to our educational system. For five years, Cindy served as writer-in-residence with InsideOut Literary Art Project, which brings working poets into Detroit public schools. Her essay, "Sharing Voices, Acting Crazy," appears in their anthology, To Light a Fire. Her most expansive piece about teaching was published overseas in Writing in Education, entitled “Fifteen Lessons from nine years of Teaching.”

Excerpts from the book she co-authored with Rabbi Daniel B. Syme, 100 Essential Books for Jewish Readers, are interesting for all readers, regardless of their religion.  Frenkel also has authored several columns, including one for The New York Observer and three for Women's Wire, an online magazine, where she served as the Detroit dive-in. She interviewed many local, notable women for her terse profiles, Women to Watch, including Rosa Parks, Irma Elder, Florine Mark, Carmen Harlen, Carol Quigley, Sue Marx, Madeline Triffon, and Eleanor Josaitis.

She's interviewed numerous artists, including Arnold Newman, Dale Chihuly, Graceann Warn, Tracy Gallup, Charla Khanna, Laurie Eisenhart, and Jo Powers. She's covered art movements and private collections as well, and has written about Pewabic Pottery, the Renaissance and the Medicis, The Manoogian Collection, antique clothing, fountain pens, handmade chocolates, costumes, and local places in metro Detroit. She also writes artists' statements.

Frenkel earned her M.F.A. from Columbia University. She is certified in Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), and she spent a week-long teacher's residency at Falling Water where she learned how to teach architecture in the classroom. She's been on staff at various colleges since 2008. She is passionate about suicide awareness and prevention, the connection between education and agency, civil rights, animal rescue, antiquing, and design. She serves on the board of A Single Soul, which helps to prevent death by suicide. She was a Hambidge Fellow in the spring of 2018.