Diane Swearingen

Diane Swearingen attended Florida State University receiving a BS in Elementary  Education in 1972, and an MS in Library and Information Services in 1995.  Diane worked in Leon County as a classroom teacher and a school media specialist, retiring in 2009 after thirty-six years.  She published "Power," a non-fiction reading comprehension strategy, in the Florida Media Quarterly in 2009 and continued to work as a reading consultant for Renaissance Learning, Inc. until 2012.

The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters began with family research and has been a labor of love.  Diane lives in Tallahassee with her husband, Thomas, the great-grandson of Thomas Franklin Swearingen on whose live the story is based.