Yolande Brener

Yolande Brener is an English writer living in New York, author of the award-winning memoir, Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married A Stranger. Her short story, The Swan Sister, is in the anthology, Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions. Her film
 scripts have been funded by the British Film Institute and the Arts
 Council of Great Britain. She won the 2010 NYC Parks Department Poems 
in the Park competition. Her memoir, Holy Candy, won first place in the 2014 Writer's Digest Self Published eBook Awards in the Life Stories category.