[3] She has been active in many socialist, feminist, anti-war, and environmental groups, and in the faculty union while an English instructor at Langara College (1971-2001).
[3] In 1973, both Maurice and Cynthia actively campaigned to have the federal New Democratic Party more explicitly include gay rights in its platform.
[5] Flood's first three books of short fiction are The Animals in Their Elements, My Father Took a Cake to France (Talonbooks, 1987 and 1992), and The English Stories (Biblioasis 2009).
Flood's 2013 collection, Red Girl Rat Boy (Biblioasis), was chosen by January Magazine and Quill & Quire as one of 2013's notable books.
Her work appears regularly in literary magazines, e. g. Fireweed, Queen's Quarterly, A Room of One's Own, Wascana Review, and in "Best Canadian Stories".