02/10/07

Short Bio

Dianna has published in: Poetry International; Ash Canyon Review; Seattle Review; Swink Magazine, (on-line); Blue Fifth Review,(on-line); Fugue; Asheville Poetry Review; The Spoon River Poetry Review; California Quarterly; South Dakota Review; The Red Rock Review; Psychological Perspectives; The Louisville Review; Crazyhorse; Hawai’I Pacific Review; The Mid-America Poetry Review and 88, A Journal Of Contemporary American Poetry.

Dianna had a poem nominated '06 by the Hawai’i Pacific Review for a Pushcart Prize.

Dianna has new work due out in: Red Rock Review, (a story) and the Tule Review. The Tenderness House, a collection of poems, was published by Poet’s Corner Press’04, and was recently reviewed ’06 by the Red Rock Review.

She holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College ’89 and won Eastern Washington University’s Fellowship to Ireland, Writer’s Center in Dublin summer of ’94. She has also won scholarships for Post Graduate work at Vermont College and for the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference at Middlebury College, Vt.

Ms. Henning received a California Arts Council residency grant 1999 through 2001 and taught creative writing at Diamond View School, a middle school in Susanville, CA. On Jan. 10, 2001, the CAC, at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, (California Arts Council's 25^th year jubilee) awarded Henning "for her contributions, leadership, and sacrifice for the benefit of youth, and the next generation of artists," with a certificate of achievement--Sankofa Award. She conducted creative writing workshops in several California state prisons and at the OH Close Youth Authority in Stockton, CA, through the William James Association’s Prison Arts Project. She worked with the incarcerated for nine years. Dianna also taught several years for California Poets in the Schools in Nevada County and Placerville, and was the area-coordinator for CPITS in Nevada County, California.

Visiting writers are welcome to join an on-going monthly writers' workshop that Dianna Henning conducts. Writers have done this in the past and have found the workshop beneficial.