Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy, including
Questions from Outer Space (forthcoming Spring 2022), Echolocations, Resistance Fantasies, and The White Horse: A Colombian Journey.
Thiel's work has appeared in many journals, including Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Harvard Review, The Sewanee Review,
The Dark Horse (Scotland), Rattle, and Terrain.
Her poetry is reprinted in over sixty major anthologies and has been set to music and translated widely.
She has received numerous awards, such as the PEN Translation Award, the Robert Frost Award, the Robinson Jeffers Prize, the Nicholas Roerich Award,
and she was a Fulbright Scholar. Thiel's translation of Alexis Stamatis's novel, American Fugue, received the NEA International Literature Award.
Fluent in several languages, Thiel received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Brown University and has taught English and creative writing
for over twenty-five years. She is a Regents' Professor at the University of New Mexico and Associate Chair of the Department of English.
She lives in Albuquerque with her family, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains. Thiel has traveled and lived in Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia,
working on literary and environmental projects.
