Cynthia Green

is a third culture kid turned writer, researcher, and creative collaborator.

Having lived in seven countries across four continents, Cynthia brings a deeply personal lens to her work on identity, belonging, and cross-cultural experience. Her academic journey through history, textiles, and languages threads seamlessly into her fiction and nonfiction writing.

She is the author of Blue Feet Monsoon, a lyrical debut novel rooted in themes of movement, memory, and cultural hybridity.

Cynthia is currently at work on Snow Monkey, a standalone sequel to Blue Feet Monsoon that continues to explore global voices and in-between spaces. She is also coauthoring two nonfiction books on Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and Cross-Cultural Kids (CCKs), slated for release in 2026 and 2027.

Beyond the page, Cynthia contributes to academic and commercial projects that examine the cultural significance of textiles and the nuanced lives of globally mobile individuals.

If you’d like to collaborate, there’s a contact form at the bottom of this website.

Cynthia Green author of the Blue Feet Monsoon a novel set mostly in Singapore in the 1980s.

Fiction

A girl. Three passports. Some grannies. A monsoon or two. And a well-traveled sarong.

Anoushka never inconveniences anyone—not even when her parents set off for jungles and leave her behind, most recently in country-number-seven with The Montgomery's. But that is about to change. The Montgomery's may be an institution in post-colonial Singapore, but not even they can stop all hell breaking loose when Anoushka takes up with the old ladies at Saint Beatrice Hospital Elderly Ward.

With Po-Po's old mahjong set turning up and Anoushka's father Peter discovering what Mr Montgomery has been up to, a world of family secrets begins to unfold. Anoushka’s life is about to take a drastic turn.

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Praise for blue feet monsoon

‘This is an immersive tapestry of sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures. Each thread invites us to explore a rich landscape—both in terms of physical geography and human experience in which time, places, cultures and people interact. In other words, I freaking loved it!

-MATHIEU GAGNON, PHD, TCK Research Podcast

‘A fun trip through adolescent ups and downs. I enjoyed this fast paced book about change and movement.’

-KATHLEEN GAMBLE, author of Expat Alien

‘A sparkling transportation across generations and cultural worlds that is as moving as it is funny. You won’t want to put it down.’

-RUTH VAN REKEN, author of Letters Never Sent and Third Cultural Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds