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+import Link from 'next/link';
+import Image from 'next/image';
+import type { Metadata } from 'next';
+
+export const metadata: Metadata = {
+ title: 'About Cynthia Trenshaw',
+ description: 'The life and work of Cynthia Trenshaw (1942–2024) — poet, hospital chaplain, midwife to the dying, and author.',
+};
+
+export default function AboutPage() {
+ return (
+
+ {/* Header */}
+
+
About Cynthia
+
1942 — 2024
+
+
+
+ {/* Portrait */}
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Early Life
+
+ Cynthia was born in 1942 and grew up in Indiana and Michigan. She attended Hillsdale
+ College from 1960 to 1961, where she studied among a community that would later
+ celebrate her literary achievements. She married Joe Trenshaw and together they raised
+ three children: Tom, Katheryn, and Michael.
+
+
+
A Year of Fire
+
+ In a single devastating year, Cynthia's thirteen-year-old son Tom was killed by
+ gunfire, the family home burned, and her husband suffered a heart attack. These
+ tragedies shaped her profoundly, deepening her understanding of grief and resilience,
+ and ultimately directing her toward a life of service to others in crisis.
+
+
+
+
+
+ {/* Second photo */}
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Second Chapter
+
+ Widowed at fifty-one, Cynthia reinvented her life. She earned a Master of Divinity
+ from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, then served as a hospital chaplain
+ and spiritual companion to the dying and their families for over three decades. She
+ also worked as a massage therapist for homeless individuals in San Francisco and as
+ a guardian ad litem — an advocate for children in court proceedings.
+
+
+
+ She eventually settled on Whidbey Island, Washington, where the landscape of sea
+ and sky infused her later poetry.
+
+
+
The Writer
+
+ Cynthia's writing drew from her decades at the bedside of the dying. Her first book,
+ A Harvest of Years, was published in 2004. Her second, Meeting in the
+ Margins: An Invitation to Encounter the Invisible People Among Us (She Writes
+ Press, 2015), won the IPPY Gold Medal and chronicled her experiences among those
+ society renders invisible — the homeless, the incarcerated, the dying.
+
+
+
+ Her poetry collection Mortal Beings was published by Finishing Line Press
+ in 2019. Her poems appeared in numerous journals including Sky Island Journal,
+ Peacock Journal, Hospital Drive (UVA School of Medicine),
+ The Main Street Rag, Soundings Review, Haunted Waters Press,
+ and Snapdragon Journal.
+
+
+
+ {/* Third photo */}
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
What Others Said
+
+
+
+ “Trenshaw writes with the hard-won wisdom of one who has sat at the bedsides
+ of the dying and found there, not despair, but a fierce and luminous grace.”
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ “In Cynthia's hands, even the smallest gesture — a tulip on a windowsill,
+ a raven's offering — becomes a threshold between worlds.”
+
+
+
+
+
Final Years
+
+ Cynthia passed away on February 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-one. She is survived
+ by her daughter Katheryn Trenshaw of Totnes, England; her son Michael and
+ daughter-in-law Kay of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and her grandchildren Anna, Joseph,
+ Jessica, and Orion.
+
+
+
+ Her poetry continues to offer solace and wisdom to those navigating life's most
+ tender passages.
+
+
+
+ {/* Back link */}
+
+
+ Return to Contents
+
+
+
+
+ );
+}
diff --git a/cynthia-poetry/src/app/essays/when-a-friend-dies/page.tsx b/cynthia-poetry/src/app/essays/when-a-friend-dies/page.tsx
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--- a/cynthia-poetry/src/app/essays/when-a-friend-dies/page.tsx
+++ b/cynthia-poetry/src/app/essays/when-a-friend-dies/page.tsx
@@ -2,29 +2,16 @@ import Link from 'next/link';
import type { Metadata } from 'next';
export const metadata: Metadata = {
- title: 'When A Friend Dies',
+ title: 'Afterword: When A Friend Dies',
description: 'An essay by Cynthia Trenshaw about grief and the loss of a friend, written for Leo E. Baldwin.',
};
export default function WhenAFriendDiesPage() {
return (
- {/* Back link */}
-
-
-
- Back to Home
-
-
-
- {/* Essay header */}
+ {/* Header */}
-
Essay
+
Afterword
When A Friend Dies
For Leo E. Baldwin
by Cynthia Trenshaw
@@ -114,14 +101,16 @@ export default function WhenAFriendDiesPage() {