Micki Bare is a graduate of NC State University. Her career in education spans three decades, with service as a teacher, administrator, and marketing director. She is the author of three early-reader children's books, was featured in two anthologies, and wrote a human interest column for 18 years. Her first middle-grade novel, Society of the Sentinelia, won the 2022 AAUW NC Young People's Literature Award and was a 2023 Green Earth Book Award long-list nominee. Book two in the Zahra of the Uwharries series, Blind Fairy, won the 2023 AAUW NC Young People's Literature Award. Omega Crag is the third of five in the series. She loves to write, garden, cook, and hike. She and her husband reside in Asheboro, NC.