​​Author Candi Sary graduated from University Of California, Irvine. She has been in the finals of several writing competitions, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and the Dahlonega Literary Festival Novel Content. Her novel Black Crow White Lie won Reader Views Literary Award, the Dante Rossetti Award, and was named First Runner-Up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award. It was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. Her new novel Magdalena will be released by Regal House Publishing in the summer of 2023. Sary lives in coastal Southern California with her husband now that her two children are grown. Sary can often be found surfing and paddle boarding in the waters of Newport Beach, or riding her bike to her local indie bookstore, Lido Village Books. She is a proud owner of a Little Free Library. LittleFreeLibrary.org