Carole Sarkan is a retired schoolteacher who has always had a passion for writing, music, history, and art. She decided to put these interests together when she finished college and became a teacher. Since the age of six years old, Carole has always wanted to write children's books. With the partnership of Emily Christoff-Flowers as her illustrator, they embarked on an exciting adventure about Carole's English springer spaniel dog, Candy. Now they are featuring Carole's Aunt, Mary Grabill, an established artist in Florida who made her life creating pottery, despite her issues with arthritis and polio. Carole comes from a family of artists. Her grandparents were song writers, her mother and father were musicians who loved writing eloquent letters, and her brother Jim Grabill is a prolific poet and teacher in Portland, Oregon. Carole is originally from Bowling Green, Ohio and currently lives with her family in Grand Rapids, Ohio.