Cygnet Brown (1959-) Born in Northwestern Pennsylvania, began writing stories in seventh grade English class. From that time on she wanted to become a professional writer, but life got in the way. After graduating high school, she served on active Navy from 1981-1987 as a Neuro-psychiatric Technician then in the reserves until 1999. She married, became a mother to three children, step mother to another, and became a nurse.

She returned to writing in October 2008 when she fell in love with her characters all over again. With this renewed passion, she wrote her first book in The Locket Saga: When God Turned His Head. In 2012 she published her second book of the series Soldiers Don't Cry. Her third book, a nonfiction book is aptly named Simply Gardening.Her next book, Book IV of the Locket Saga: A Coward's Solace came out in August 2016. In December 2015 she came out with two booklets: Help from Kelp and Using Diatomaceous earth Around the House and Yard. She substitute teaches high school, middle school, gifted middle and high, and special needs students K-12.

Cygnet keeps busy writing a book about editing called Beyond the First Draft and working to develop the Jerjoboch Learning Center, a center that teaches children and adults as well how to live cohesively with nature using permaculture systems.