“Cynthia Moore’s marvelous Dancing on Coals: A Memoir of an Overperfomer opens with a whammy. ...an absolutely marvelous piece of writing and memory; it hit me straight on and knocked me down. 

Confidently told in a lush, rich voice, the memoir is both deeply personal and an historical account of experimental theater. I highly recommend it.”

– Summer Brenner, author of Dust, A Memoir

“Spencer’s Pond is… an honest, heart-warming, and sensitive exploration of the world from the point of view of a prescient adolescent. Told with unabashed and unadorned forthrightness, this gem of a novel touches the reader in those places of the heart that
never “grew up” ”

–– Kim Hahn

“Spencer’s Pond is a wonderful spirited book, superbly written and filled with brutal, comical (laugh-out-loud) insights, a love story of misfits who love each other in their own misfit way.”

— Summer Brenner, Author of My Life in Clothes and The Missing Lover

“The prose is exquisite: tight, vivid, rhythmic. A pleasure to read.”

–– Jean Georgakopoulos

“... consistently right on and sourly delightful.”

— Berkeley Gazette

“...at once hilarious and terrifying.”

–– The Daily Californian

“...a talented and gifted writer.”

–– Walter Schoen, San Diego Repertory Theatre

“...very strong and... hauntingly terrifying. The dialogue is powerfully simple and poignant.”

–– Laurence Maslon, Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.