Carolyn Males was born in 1946, she is a US writer and photographer. She joined a literary critique group in Maryland. There she wrote a collaborative effort with other three women, Louise Titchener, Ruth Glick, and Eileen Buckholtz. The result was a romance novel, "Love is Elected", was published by Silhouette Books under the pseudonym Alyssa Howard, and they also wrote other novel, Southern Persuasion. But they decided split them into groups of two. She wrote in collaboration with Louise Titchener as Clare Richards and Clare Richmond. She also signed her work as Carolyn Males.
Carolyn Males lives in Clarksville, Maryland.