Carol DeChant has published in Chicago’s Sun Times and Tribune and the Miami Herald; her screenplay Pure Beholding won First Place in a Texas screenplay competition. Her nonfiction books include Momma’s Enchanted Supper and Great American Catholic Eulogies. The latter won First Place in the Independent Book Publishers Associations’ Audio Book of the Year contest.

Are Your Free? is her first novel. She and her two daughters live in Sarasota, FL; they take shelter as needed during hurricane season with her two sons in Atlanta.