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Diana Woodcock

Diana Woodcock is the author of Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders, which won the 2010 Vernice Quebodeaux International Poetry Prize for Women (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2011). Her six chapbooks include Beggar in the Everglades, Desert Ecology: Lessons and Visions, Tamed by the Desert, In the Shade of the Sidra Tree, Mandala, and Travels of a Gwai Lo—the title poem of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Toadlily Press. In 2013, she received a Presidential Research Quest Fund Award from Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2011, she received the Distinguished Achievements in Research Award from Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Recipient of the 2007 Creekwalker Poetry Prize, she has had poems published in Best New Poets 2008, Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Portland Review, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals and anthologies. Since receiving an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing in 2004, she has been teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Previously, she spent nearly eight years working in Tibet, Macau, and on the Thai-Cambodian border. She is a PhD candidate (creative writing/poetry) at Lancaster University.

Bio at Poets and Writers

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Under the Spell of a Persian Nightengale :

MISTY FIORDS NATIONAL MONUMENT - TONGASS NATIONAL FOREST

Li_Chevalier - In May 2010, her poetry was exhibited with Li Chevalier’s paintings at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China.