A raw, gritty New Englander, Dianne C. Braley is a nurse, poet, and author. Inspired by her time caring for a famous Pulitzer-prize-winning patient on Martha’s Vineyard Island, she crafted her debut novel, The Silence in the Sound, winner of the 2022 NYC Big Book Award in women’s fiction. Working with Poet’s Choice has been a wonderful publishing experience. Life and its hills and valleys inspire me to write. I am intrigued by the darkness of the soul and overcoming pain.