Cyndie Zikmund is a writer, technology nerd, and marine mammal enthusiast. Her latest essays are included in When Rain Will Come, an anthology released in November 2024. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Under the Gum Tree, Cutleaf, North Dakota Quarterly Review, and Pink Panther Magazine. After a forty-five year career in Silicon Valley tech, she now lives peacefully on the Monterey Peninsula with her husband and two rescue pups