Chris Cander

Chris Cander graduated from the Honors College at the University of Houston, in the city where she was raised and still lives with her husband, daughter, and son. Her first novel, 11 Stories, won the Independent Publisher Gold Medal for Popular Fiction, and Whisper Hollow, was long-listed for the Great Santini Fiction Prize by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She is also the author of The Weight of a Piano, her most recent novel, and The Word Burglar, which won the 2014 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.