An Essential Evil

Diane Marquart Moore is a poet, journalist, book author, and blogger at “A Word’s Worth,” who divides her time between Sewanee, Tennessee and New Iberia, Louisiana. She is a regular contributor to the Pinyon Review, has published in The Southwestern Review at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, Interdisciplinary Humanities, The Xavier Review, Acadiana Profile Magazine, American Weave, Louisiana Historical Review, Trace, and other literary journals. In 2017, she was featured on a panel of poets at the Louisiana Book Festival and read from A Slow Moving Stream. She has been an Associate Editor for Acadiana Lifestyle Magazine, New Iberia, Louisiana, feature writer and columnist for The Daily Iberian, as well as a feature writer and book reviewer for The Yaddasht Haftegy in Ahwaz, Iran during the reign of the Shahanshah.
Isabel Anders is the author of more than 20 books for adults, children, and young adults, including the award-winning book: Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom, with a Foreword by Phyllis Tickle; Awaiting the Child: An Advent Journal, with an Introduction by Madeleine L’Engle; Soul Moments: Times When Heaven Touches Earth; The Faces of Friendship; and 40-Day Journey with Madeleine L’Engle. Anders lives with her husband in Sewanee, Tennessee.