Diane Thiel, GPC 2003-2004
Diane Thiel is the author of ten books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy, including
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). She has also published three textbooks with Longman: Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises
in Four Genres (2005), Open Roads:
Exercises in Writing Poetry (2005), and Winding
Roads: Exercises in Writing Creating Nonfiction (2008). Her chapbook, Cleft
in the Wall, was published by Aralia Press (1999). Thiel's translation of Greek author Alexis Stamatis's American
Fugue (2008) received an NEA International Literature Award in conjunction with Etruscan Press. Her work appears
in numerous publications, including Poetry, The Hudson Review,
and Best American Poetry 1999 (Scribner's),
and is reprinted in Longman, Bedford, Harper Collins, Beacon, Henry Holt and McGraw Hill anthologies, including Twentieth
Century American Poetry (McGraw
Hill, 2004). Thiel's work has also been translated into Spanish,
Russian, Korean,
French, and Romanian and has appeared in over 40 major national and
international anthologies. The recipient of 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. Fluent in Spanish, German, and French, she has
traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and South America.
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.
Visit her at her Web page.
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Foundation.