About Diana
Diana is an enthusiastic and introspective poet who has been writing her high school creative writing class. She believes that there is something universal in the uniqueness of everyone's lives and sees similarities between human emotions and natural phenomena. A graduate of William & Mary and Trinity College Dublin, she will combine her loves for marine science and English literature as when beginning her PhD at The University of Edinburgh this fall. Her academic interests include Modernism (James Joyce, Virginia Woolf etc.), representations of the ocean, ideas of 'islandness', and blue ecocritical thought.
Diana’s work has been featured by The New York Review of Books and has been published in The Sucharnochee Review, Short Édition, and The Gallery. Her poetry also appears in Washington University in St. Louis's Life/Lines blog and in Local Gems Press's Tea-ku: Poems About Tea. Her first collection was a chapbook entitled The Sands of Time, published in December 2020 by Local Gems Press. Sensing, her second book, was published in June 2021 by Atmosphere Press and was met with critical acclaim by four editorial reviews. She enjoys sharing her work with others, having given author talks and readings, led writing workshops, mentored high school students and served as a judge for local poetry contests. When not writing poetry, Diana can be found at the ice rink coaching figure skating and choreographing theatre-on-ice programs.
