Mary Deal is an Amazon International best-selling and award-winning author of suspense/thrillers, romance, a short story collection, writing reference, and self-help. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her first feature screenplay, Sea Storm, was a Semi-Finalist in a Moondance International Film Festival competition. She is former newspaper columnist and magazine editor. Mary was also Founder and Past-President of Kauai Writers' Roundtable on Kauai in Hawaii.

She has traveled a great deal and has a lifetime of diverse experiences, all of which remain as fodder for her fiction. A native of California's Sacramento River Delta, where some of her stories are set, she has lived in several states, England, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and now resides in North Carolina. She is also an oil painter and photographer. Her art is used to create gorgeous personal and household products from her online galleries.