Ashwood

"Cynthia Kraack’s immediately transfixing Ashwood deftly swings us into a not-too-distant future of limited natural resources and unlimited challenges, and into the life of a young government worker beginning an assignment as matron of an agricultural estate, where being certain of who you are, who’s watching you, and whom to trust is as hard as the winter further isolating her foreboding new home and the unexpected family it comes to contain." –Suzanne Strempek Shea, author of Becoming Finola

Cynthia Kraack of Mendota Heights, MN Cynthia Kraack is the author of Minnesota Cold and the Ashwood series. She is completing University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. Her nonfiction work includes writing business simulation games which have received professional recognition for innovation and creativity. Cynthia was born and raised in Wisconsin and has lived in Minnesota all her adult life. She is married and has two adult children.