Diane lives in the Deep South with her teenaged daughter, Ania, and several dogs and cats. She teaches creative writing at Univeristy of Arkansas-Monticello, and is also the author of the young adult novel A New Kind of Music and her memoir Burning Tulips.
In the beginning, and for the next thirty odd years, my body could have been defined as androgynous, and I could have been described as a body nazi. Then I became pregnant, and most of my body remained the same, but I nursed my daughter for several years, which seemed to horrify friends, and little by little, I discovered I could no longer wear my favorite vintage dresses.