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 (one of only three awarded nationally). 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). Thiel's work is translated into Spanish, Russian, Korean, French, and Romanian and appears in over 40 major national and international anthologies. 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,
South America and Australia, 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 in Odessa, on the Black
Sea, and is currently Professor of English/Creative Writing at the
University of New Mexico.
