Awards and Background
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I grew up in Wheatland, Wyoming and lived in Montana and Colorado before moving to San Diego 25 years ago. I have three children and six grandchildren; some live in Colorado - some in Texas. My day job has always been in education, first as a teacher, then as a middle school principal. I have been the Director of Credentials at National University in San Diego and an adjunct professor there.
I won my first award in 1999 for Best Personal Essay in University Publications, Western Region; the piece, entitled "Not Just Another Cancer Story" had been submitted on behalf of the National University periodical Insight and was later published in Coping Magazine, under the title, "The Love That Sees Me Through". In 2000, my novel A Mingled Yarn won first runner-up in the San Diego Book Awards unpublished novel, so I submitted two pieces in 2002 and won runner-up for poetry Chapbook with Poems to My Mother, and for The Trap in the category of Novelist Grant Award. In 2004, my co-author Gordon Ooley and I won first place in San Diego Book Awards Unpublished novel category for Emergence.
I am on the Advisory Board of San Diego Writers, Ink and also co-taught a class for that group, "Become a More Powerful Writer," with the renowned essayist Sue Diaz.
My husband Mathew Levine and I recently moved to Susanville, California, a idyllic small town in the Sierras where he serves as Director of Financial Aid at Lassen Community College and where I am happily ensconced in a group of talented writers.
| Candace's Home | Awards and Background |
| To Be Released | In Search of a Publishing Home |
| Emergence | The biography of a heavyweight boxer,
Off the Ropes: The Ron Lyle Story (working title) or The Fight of His Life: The Ron Lyle Story |
| Published Novels | An Award-Winning Poetry Chapbook |
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The Trap A Mingled Yarn A Thousand Strands | Poems to My Mother |
| In the Works | An Award-Winning Essay |
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Portals | The Love That Sees Me Through |
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