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Diane Kendig has worked for over twenty-five years as a poet and writer, translator, and teacher. Her poetry has been published in two chapbooks, A Tunnel of Flute Song (Cleveland State Poetry Center) and Diane Kendig’s Greatest Hits (Pudding House) as well as over fifty journals, including Colere, Minnesota Review, Poetry Midwest, Slant, and Poemeleon, and anthologies such as Grrr: A Collection of Poems About Bears, Modern Poems of Ohio, and Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn. She has been the recipient of two Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowships in Poetry and a Yaddo Fellowship. In addition to poetry, she has published creative nonfiction and fiction in journals and anthologies such as Ariadne’s Thread: A Collection of Contemporary Women’s Journals, From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest, and Those Winter Sundays: Female Academics and Their Working-Class Parents.

As a translator, she first published poems from the Nicaraguan poetry workshop movement, including a bilingual chapbook of Nicaraguan poems with photos by Steve Cagan. Titled And a Pencil to Write Your Name: Poems from the Nicaragua Poetry Workshop Movement, the book took Diane to the National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Institute at UC Santa Cruz and to a 1991 Fulbright Lectureship in the Translation Department of Central American University in Nicaragua. Since then, she has translated poems by among other Nicaraguan poets, Daisy Zamora, who translated Diane's work for the literary supplement of Nuevo Diario. Diane returned to Managua with other American writers in 1996 to run poetry workshops for children and for teens in neighborhood centers and for inmatesin the maximum security prison, La Modelo.

[BIO FROM DIANEKENDIG.COM]