Diane Alward, winner of the Young Author's Writing Award, has spent more than a decade serving the Lord by serving His children. Through her drama and music ministries, she has written and directed multiple children's productions for private Christian schools and large homeschool groups alike. Embracing the Lord's call to write, her passion is to serve the Lord wherever and however she can. She and her husband of more than twenty-five years reside in the foothills of Northern California.