Cary Flanagan has lived a highly creative life that included being a musician, photographer, professional potter, writer, and quilt designer. She has taken many classes and workshops in her areas of intrest, including creative writing, memoir, and short stories. She has been writing most of her life and quilting for more than thirty-five years. In addition to a professional career in  social services, she has also been the owner of two "home-grown" business. She and her husband owned The Good Earth Pottery, in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire in the early '70s, selling their work all over the country while rennovating an 1840's farmhouse and barn. After leaving full-time work at Big Brothers Big Sisters (of Greater Manchester, NH), she became a designer and producer of patterns for making quilts for fifteen years. She still quilts, and has written three novels (a trilogy entitled "Hannah's Legacy". She is considering adding another novel to her series to carry on the story that she developed over five generations. Each novel can be read as a stand-alone, but they make more sense is read in sequence.

The first novel in the trilogy is "After the Storm, the Story of Hannah Applegate Benson Stone". This is a historical novel set in rural New New Hampshire in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Next is the story of Hannah's daughter Sarah, in "Sarah's Quest - a Place to Belong". This story is set mostly in the Arizona Territories about 1900, before Arizona became a state. The third novel is contemporary, and tells the story of Hannah's Gr. Gr. granddaughter, Becca: "A Quilter's Heritage: Becca's Story".

Cary and her husband Ron live in a wonderful retirement community in southern NH with their much loved rescue dog, Nixie.

Cary holds a BA in Sociology and Anthropology, and an M.Ed. in Counseling.