Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow is the author of two poetry collections: Horn Section All Day Every Day, and The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor (Salmon Poetry, 2018 and 2012, respectively). In the Washington Independent Review of Books, critic Grace Cavalieri describes Edlow's most recent collection as an "encyclopedic high holiday where…[she] romps with language, risks everything, uses dialogue as if she invented idiom, and writes with high-octane energy." Her poems appeared in such journals as The American Journal of Poetry, American Literary Review, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Gulf Coast, the Los Angeles Review, Salamander, and South Dakota Review. She was sole proprietor of a civil law legal business for over 20 years. Edlow serves as a poetry instructor at Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Changing Hands Bookstore, and the Desert Botanical Garden.