Kajun Kween

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.
Paul Schexneyder illustrated Kajun Kween with pen and ink drawings of Petite Marie’s adventures. He is an artist, author/illustrator, and art teacher. He is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, has illustrated over half a dozen children’s books, and has been the official Louisiana artist of many state festivals and events. He owns an art gallery in his hometown of New Iberia.