Write What Must Not Be Forgotten

Cindy Beer-Fouhy

Writing Institute Instructor

Cindy Beer-Fouhy is a poet, freelance writer, and arts consultant and has been teaching writing in schools and community facilities for over 50 years. Former founder and director of the Literary Arts Department at the Northern Westchester Center for the Arts and curator of the award-winning Creative Arts Café poetry series. Her poetry and essays have been published in literary journals, magazines and anthologies including Bronx Accent: A Literary and Pictorial History of the Borough (Rutgers University Press) and her articles and interviews have appeared in ArtsWestchester’s Arts News, Roll Magazine and Westchester Family. Her poems have been winners of the 2011, 2012 and 2013 Greenburgh Poetry Competitions. Cindy served as a judge for the National Jewish Book Awards in Poetry and has been a consultant for the Master of Arts in Writing program at Manhattanville College. She is on the advisory committee of the Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Slapering Hol Press and is a member of the National Writers Project. In addition to teaching her popular Life Stories course at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence, she is currently a Teaching Artist through ArtsWestchester, Lifetime Arts, Inc., and BOCES and facilitates Life Stories Writing Workshops in Senior Centers, Mental Health Facilities and Public Schools.