Darianne is a young adult and middle grade author currently living in a small coastal town in Florida, where she is lucky enough to enjoy long walks on the beach nearly every weekend.

When she’s not writing stories about grief, love, and towns that are just a little bit strange, you can find her eating the darkest possible chocolate or playing overly aggressive games of Scrabble. Unless it’s Friday night, in which case she’ll be at the dinner table with her large extended family enjoying fresh challah while half-heartedly telling her daughter and nieces to stop throwing bread at each other.

She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Elon University and her Masters from the University of Southern California where they reluctantly let her write her thesis on rock and roll lyrics.