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Short Bio
Dianna Henning's work has appeared in, to name a few: Crazyhorse, The Lullwater Review, Poetry International, Fugue, The Asheville Poetry Review, South Dakota Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review and The Seattle Review. She taught creative writing for California Poets in the Schools, through the William James Association's Prison Arts Program and through several California Arts Council grants, and was a recipient of a '08 California Humanities Stories Grant. She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Dianna has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
She co-edited, "Small Moments in Time," stories and poems from Lassen County which included Native American work. This project was funded, in part, by a CA Humanities Stories Grant. She was also, for a number of years, poetry editor for The Western Slopes Connection, in Nevada City, CA. Dianna recently wrote a review for Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson's book, By Heart/Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, a Memoir which was published 2010 in the Montserrat Review.
Dianna Henning holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College. Ms. Henning's poem "Unearthing the Good" is the winner of the 2009 poetry category in the Radiant Hen Publishing's "Growing in Vermont" writing contest. "The Holiness of Potatoes," originally published in The Seattle Review was re-published in an environmental literary E-zine called Canary.
Thomas Rain Crowe, Editor of Writing the Wind: The New Celtic Poetry says of Dianna Henning's latest book: "In the tradition of Robert Bly's "leaping poetry", Dianna Henning's work leaps. Takes chances, yet is grounded in a story-like quality that draws the reader in. From her early surreal driven poems, her work has, over the years, matured into the poetry of particulars. "Camouflage may be the angel's art" according to Henning, but it is also the poet's art. To hide images and ideas well enough to bring them to life. Dianna Henning does that as well as anyone." Her new book can be purchased through Black Buzzard Press, TX.
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