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Candace Johnson is a 2023 Hurston-Wright Fiction Fellow and journalism graduate of Michigan State University. She spent the first half of her career as a sportswriter and entertainment editor at The Virginian-Pilot and The Indianapolis Star before making a switch into corporate communications for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Her indie novel, "The Kitchen Isn't Where You Cook," was released in December 2024 on all digital platforms and as a paperback on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and more. She lives in the northwest Chicago suburbs with her husband and two teenage children.