Cynthia McQuillin (July 25, 1953 – January 14, 2006) was a filk singer and writer as well as an author and artist. She lived in the San Francisco Bay area. Her songs touched the usual filk topics of science fiction, fantasy, and cats, but also feminism, love, Paganism, and Sizeism. Her life partner and frequent musical collaborator was the filk singer James Robinson, who was then known as Dr. Jane Robinson. McQuillin reportedly said, upon meeting James for the first time, "At last I get to meet the man I fell in love with!" Cynthia was inducted to the Filk Hall of Fame at FilKONtario in 1998. A book of songs by McQuillin as the "Cynthia McQuillin Songbook, ("everything that Dr. Jim Robinson, Kristoph Klover & Margaret Davis, Harold Stein, Mary Creasey, Kay Shapero, Bob Kanefsky, Alan Thiesen, and Lee Gold could find in 2013") was compiled and published by Lee Gold in 2013. Discography Crystal Singer - 1981 Crystal Vision (with Phillip Wayne) Singer in the Shadow - 1983 Minus Ten and Counting - 1983 Shadow Spun - 1986 Dark Moon Circle - 1987 Moon Shadows - 1989, reissued by Shadowsinger Records Dreams of Fortune - 1991, reissued by Shadowsinger Records Midlife Crisis - performed by Midlife Crisis: Cynthia McQuillin and Dr. Jane Robinson Bedlam Cats - 1992 - performed by Midlife Crisis, plus Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Patrick McKenna, and Sharon Williams Uncharted Stars - 1993 This Heavy Heart - 1994 Witch's Dance - 1998 Bibliography A partial list of McQuillin's published short stories. This list includes only professional publications, not the many that were published in fanzines. Cat's World - CATFANTASTIC 3, DAW Books 1994 The Chieri's Godchild - SNOWS OF DARKOVER, DAW 1994 Daelith's Bargain - Sword and Sorceress 13, DAW 1996 Deep as Rivers - SWORD AND SORCERESS 17, DAW, 2000 The Exterminator - Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine #37, Autumn 1997 The Forest - THE KEEPER'S PRICE, DAW 1980 Humphrey's Dilemma - MZB's Fantasy Magazine #29, Autumn 1995 Leaves of Iron - SWORD AND SORCERESS 20, DAW, 200 The Mages of Carthia - MZB's Fantasy Magazine, issue 21, Fall 1993 The Mage Who Dreamed of Gryphons - MZB's Fantasy Magazine, issue 26, Summer 1995 MZBeans (a soup) & Spiderfish Stew - Serve It Forth: Cooking with Anne McCaffrey Parri's Blade - SWORD AND SORCERESS 21, DAW, 2004 Seliki - SUCH A PRETTY FACE, Meisha