Yolande Brener is an English author and actress known for her memoir, Holy Candy: Why I Joined A Cult And Married a Stranger,[2] and for her literary journalism.

[4] During this time Brener appeared as an actress in films including Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover,[5] Derek Jarman's The Garden,[6] and Viv Albertine's Coping with Cupid[7] for which she co-wrote the script.

In 1990, while working on a documentary called Soul Searching, Brener met a member of the Unification Church, otherwise known as The Moonies.

[10] Her short story, The Swan Sister is featured in Seal Press's Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women In Extreme Religions.

[11][12] Yolande Brener won the 2010 NYC Parks Department Poems in the Park Award, and won First Place in the Writer's Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards for her memoir, Holy Candy.