The Consolation of Garden

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.
Victoria I. Sullivan is an author, botanist and photographer. She studied biology at the University of Miami, has a Ph.D. in biology from Florida State University and held a faculty position in the Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette for 20 years. She has published poetry, flash fiction, numerous botanical papers and other nonfiction, and the speculative fiction novels Adoption and Rogue Genes, Why Water Plants Don’t Drown, a book for nature lovers and illustrated by Susan E. Elliott Entsminger. Adoption and Why Water Plants Don’t Drown were published by Pinyon-Publishing. She contributed photographic illustrations to several books of poetry written by poet Diane Marquart Moore. Sullivan is a resident of Sewanee, Tennessee and winters in New Iberia, Louisiana.