Cynthia Flood (born September 17, 1940) is a Canadian short-story writer and novelist. The daughter of novelist Luella Creighton and historian Donald Creighton, she grew up primarily in Toronto. After attending the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley she spent some years in the United States, where she married before moving to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1969. After retirement, she briefly taught creative writing in Simon Fraser University's writing and publishing program.