Cyndie Jean Zahner '79 retired from full-time grant writing and
part-time freelancing jobs to write novels in 2015. She published her
fourth novel, Friends Who Move Couches, in 2020, dedicating the book to
friends, several of whom graduated with her in '79. In addition to this
Women's Fiction novel, Zahner has published three thrillers, The Suicide
Gene, Dream Wide Awake, and Project Dream, and has a fifth book coming
out in 2021, Don't Mind Me, I Came with the House. Zahner writes under
the pen name CJ Zahner.