Candace Denning is the author of two novels. Her second, The Women in Her Dreams, was awarded the Virginia Prize for Fiction and then later translated and published in Russia. As a screenwriter, she helped produce a short film that premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis, and also traveled to China as a documentarian for an American medical research project.
After teaching composition and creative writing for several years in Indiana universities and working as development editor for a book publisher, Denning started her own business. she has helped Indianapolis writers structure and develop their novels, memoirs and nonfiction books. She is also a ghostwriter.
Denning received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and a Creative Renewal Grant from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, among other literary awards. She holds an M.A. in French literature from Indiana University at Bloomington and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.
