Cynthia McQuillin

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, title 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, but is now out of print.

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