Fiction Bio
 

Dianna Dann Trantham was born in December of 1961, in Orlando, and now resides in Brevard County, Florida. While she has been fortunate enough to have visited parts of Europe, lived for a year in Denver, traveled many fabulous parts of the American West, and spent a summer in Baltimore, she has resigned herself to the idea of spending the rest of her life, and dying, in Brevard County.

Dianna began writing as a young person and completed one book in junior high school and another in high school. Fortunately, these novels were seen only by her friends and their state of existence now is unknown. She wrote a short story that was published in the Titusville High School anthology known as Impetus in the spring of 1978. It was a maudlin story about a little old man named Ollie and his memories.

After school, Dianna began a downward spiral into life and didn't come up for sanity until she was about 27, at which time she met a man who had a most bizarre outlook on life. She realized she shared his outlook and married him. She then proceeded to put many things in the way of a much desired writing career: a bachelor's degree in history; a full-time job at a bookstore as manager; three children; soap operas, etc. She claimed she was getting experience, as many authors do. And she did produce a smattering of writing during that time.

Dianna was published a couple of times in Scribblers of Brevard's annual anthology: Driftwood. She won the Space Coast Writers Guild's annual short fiction competition both times she entered. And she began to receive some encouraging rejections from editors of literary journals. Then she stopped writing. No one knows why and perhaps one day college students will ponder those nonproductive years with awe and reverence.

Finally, in 2007, Dianna, getting old and hitting her stride, began to understand the first rule of writing: writers write. She completed three books that year. And in January of 2008, she learned the second rule of writing: writers send their work to editors who can pay them.

And so, she embarked on a career of writing, finally.

Her children are home schooled, though now require little of her attention. She is learning to write while her husband is in the same room. And she has always been adept at managing cats on the desk. Our hopes for her success are high.

She can be reached at catspah@cfl.rr.com.