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Diane Thiel is the author of six books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy: Echolocations (2000), which received
the Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story
Line Press; Writing Your Rhythm: Using Nature, Culture,
Form and Myth (Story Line Press, 2001); The White Horse: A Colombian Journey (Etruscan Press, 2004);
and Resistance Fantasies (Story Line Press, 2004). Her two new textbooks from Longman:
Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres, and
Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry appeared in 2005. Her chapbook, Cleft in the Wall, was published
by Aralia Press (1999). Her work appears in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Hudson
Review, and Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner's), and is re-printed in Longman,
Bedford, Harper Collins, Beacon, Henry Holt and McGraw Hill anthologies, including
Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004). Her work has received
numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Award, the Robinson Jeffers Award, and the New Millennium Writings Award. Thiel received her BA and MFA
from Brown University. She has traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and
South America and is fluent in Spanish, German, French and speaks some Greek. She has
been a professor of creative writing for over ten years and has also taught in innovative settings
such as the NSF program: Ecology for Urban Students and for the Miami Book Fair's Poet in the
Schools program. Thiel was a Fulbright Scholar for 2001-2002 in Odessa, on the Black
Sea, and is currently an Associate Professor of English/Creative Writing at the
University of New Mexico.
Diane Thiel can be contacted at: diane@dianethiel.net
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