Diane Marie Brown

About Diane Marie Brown

Diane has a BA and MPH from UCLA and her degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Hear Our Voices, Scary Mommy, the Audible Blog, Bomb Magazine, Women Writers, and the Daily Bruin. Diane grew up in Stockton and lives in Long Beach, California with her husband, their four daughters, and a dog. One of the key themes of “Black Candle Women” is truly examining how we pass things on from one generation to the next. Sometimes, these are actually tangible things. Like this family having a spell book that gets passed on through different generations and over time. It is also accumulated other things like drawings and recipes which document interesting bits and pieces of their history. Another theme is how we pass gifts along and generational cur