Cherilyn Fienen is a 38-year-old writer and artist living in Southeast Kansas with her teenage daughter. When she isn't writing, her interests include painting, genealogy research, photography and home décor. Cherilyn is also working towards becoming a foster mother. She volunteers at the local library, works as a substitute teacher when time permits and decorates cakes to help with fundraising for a local high school. Cherilyn grew up in San Diego and started writing as soon as she learned how her feelings and experiences could be translated onto paper. She is almost finished with a non-fiction Romance/Drama set in San Diego, CA; has started a long term plan on a life memoir and is self publishing You Come From A Long Line of Strong Women, for her daughter and Two Sides of Wilde, a fiction novel. Many other projects are in the works. Cherilyn also submits poetry, articles on various topics to online and traditional magazines and has tried her hand at song writing and a Halloween children's book, Creepy Christina; completed and currently in the illustration stages. Cherilyn has started and stopped her education over the years, completing more than 2 years of college as an English Major.