Cindy Chandler Pye was born and raised in the piney hills of Louisiana. After high school, she studied Creative Writing through the Institute of Children’s Literature and Louisiana Tech University.

After she and her husband married and raised their children to adulthood, she picked up her dream from her teenage years and is pursuing a writing career in the genres of Inspirational Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction, as well as Children’s Fiction.

A highlight for Cindy in high school was earning first place in ninth grade, and third place in tenth grade during the annual poetry contest through Louisiana Tech University English Department. As an adult, for two consecutive years, she received an honorable mention for poetry through the Sparrowgrass Poetry Contest, and her dream of becoming a published poet came true. She continues writing poetry as she pursues her love of writing fiction.

Cindy’s first short story, Time and Time Again was published in the 2024 Anthology titled Time Passages: A Collection of Diverse Short Stories. She is working on an upcoming debut novel loosely based on a family legend discovered while researching genealogy. This story will have at least two sequels to tell the whole story.

She and her husband live in a house in the hills with her goofy cat, Pepper, and a demanding but sweet cat named River. When not writing, she loves reading in the Inspirational Historical fiction genre. Other things she enjoys are container gardening, landscape design, walking in the woods near home, genealogy research, sewing, and crocheting.