Diane Wald

American poet

Diane Wald is an American poet and novelist. Her most recent poetry collection is The Warhol Pillows (2021). She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Skanky Possum, Fence, The Hat, Verse, and The Paterson Review. She was born in Paterson, New Jersey. She earned a B.A. from Montclair State College and an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and has lived in Massachusetts since 1972. She lives near Boston.^[1]^[2]

Forthcoming: The Bayrose Files, from Regal House Publishing, 2025

https://regalhousepublishing.com/diane-wald/

Honors and awards

2020 International Book Awards Winner in Fiction: Novella
2020 Independent Press Award Winner in Paranormal Romance
2019 Readers' Favorite Awards Bronze Medal Winner in Fiction (Visionary)
Winner for Gillyflower in Novella category, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Winner for Gillyflower in fiction (Novella), Best Book Awards
2021 NYC Big Book Awards Winner in Visionary Fiction for My Famous Brain
2021 Winner in Visionary Fiction, new Adult Fiction, and Speculative Fiction from Firebirds Book Awards for My Famous Brain
Anne Halley Poetry Prize
Fine Arts Work Center fellowship
Denny Award
Open Voice Award
Massachusetts Artist Grant
Green Lake Chapbook Award from Owl Creek Press

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

Lucid Suitcase (Red Hen Press, 1999)^[3]
'The Yellow Hotel'. Verse Press. 2002. ISBN 0-9723487-2-7.^[4]
Wonderbender, 2011, 1913 Press^[5]
The Warhol Pillows , 2021, Finishing Line Press^[6]

Chapbooks

My Hat That Was Dreaming (White Fields Press)
Double Mirror (Runaway Spoon Press, 1996)^[7]
Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet (Mudlark, 1998)^[8]
Faustinetta, Gegenschein, Trapunto (Cervena Barva Press, 2008)^[9]

Novella

Gillyflower (2019, She Writes Press) https://www.gillyflowernovel.com

Novel

2021: My Famous Brain (She Writes Press) https://www.myfamousbrain.com

References

^ Mipoesias Magazine > Diane Wald > Poems & Bio
^ Mudlark > Authors > Diane Wald
^ Library of Congress Online Catalog > Diane Wald
^ Wave Books > Author Page: Diane Wald
^ "Wonderbender", 1913 Press.
^ "The Warhol Pillows by Diane Wald", Finishing Line Press.
^ Runaway Spoon Press Catalog
^ Mudlark > Digital Chapbook > Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet by Diane Wald
^ Červená Barva Press Bookstore > Faustinetta, Gegenschein, Trapunto by Diane Wald