Candi Sary is the author of Magdalena (Regal House Publishing, 2023) winner of a Chanticleer International Book Award, and Black Crow White Lie (Casperian Books, 2012), winner of Reader Views Literary Award, a CIBA award and first runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction. Her work has also made the finals of several writing competitions including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and the William Faulkner William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. A mother of two adult children, Sary lives in Southern California with her husband, dog, cat and several ducks.