Writer + Educator + Facilitator
Working in theater, poetry, prose, and design, Diane explores what she calls the 4L’s: love, loss, legacy, and land.
Her work has been presented by The New Group, National Black Theatre, BRIC Arts, Haiti Cultural Exchange, Bowery Poetry Club, and more. Her writing appears in Staatstheater Hannover Magazine, The Atlas Review, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, amongst other publications. Her play Bernarda’s Daughters debuted Off-Broadway in 2023. Diane is the author of the poetry collection The Math of Saint Felix. She is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and a 2021 Jerome Foundation Finalist.
As an educator, Diane’s pedagogy focuses on creating spaces of care and self-expression. She has facilitated programs at ArtsConnection, Community MusicWorks, New Urban Arts, RISD Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and more. Diane studied at Amherst College and holds a Master’s degree from Brown University. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
(photo by Peter Bellamy)