Diana Goetsch is the author of three full-length volumes of poems, five prize-winning chapbooks, and “Life in Transition,” a series of 31 essays that ran in The American Scholar from 2015-16. Her work has appeared in leading journals and anthologies such as The New Yorker, Poetry, the Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize, as well as in major newspapers such as the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship from The New School, and the Donald Murray prize for writing pedagogy. She has taught writing at colleges, M.F.A. programs, public schools, prisons and, for seventeen years, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.