Flood on the Rio Teche

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.

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Flood on the Rio Teche is a fictional account of the founding of New Iberia, Louisiana by the Malagueños in 1770 during the time of a devastating flood.  Seventeen-year old Antonio Romero migrates with his family and other settlers from Málaga, Spain. The family is assailed by hardships: crop failure, kidnapping, and family breakup. They befriend nearby Chitimacha tribesmen who save them many times. Antonio and his mother travel by keelboat to New Orleans where they develop smallpox. Flood on the Rio Teche is available in eBook format from Amazon. Published 2008.

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