Cynthia Fuller worked freelance in Adult and Higher Education for many years, has taught creative writing for Leeds University and the Open University, and worked as a poetry editor for the magazine Writing Women. She has also edited several anthologies including The Poetry Cure with Julia Darling and North by North-East with Andy Croft. She is Degree Programme Director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Fuller has published 5 poetry collections with Flambard Press including Moving Towards Light in 1992; Instructions for the Desert in 1996; Only a Small Boat in 2001, Jack's Letters Home 1917 - 1918 in 2006 and Background Music in 2009.