Connie May Fowler grew up in Florida and now lives with her husband in St. Augustine. She received an M.A. in English from the University of Kansas. In addition to Sugar Cage, Connie May Fowler is the author of Before Women Had Wings and Remembering Blue.

Connie May Fowler's Sugar Cage is the "engrossing tale of domestic life, civil rights and the supernatural in 1960s Florida." (Publisher's Weekly).