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Diane Elayne Dees is a writer, a retired psychotherapist, a former speech communication instructor, and a former public relations specialist. She is also a life-long fan of women’s professional tennis.

For several years, Diane published the progressive blog, The Dees Diversion, and she also contributed regularly to the Mother Jones MoJo Blog. Diane has published political essays, informative essays, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. For the past several years, she has concentrated on writing poetry.

An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Diane has published three poetry chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You (Finishing Line Press), and The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press). (See ordering information at the top of the page.) Her microchap, Beach Days, is available for download and folding at the Origami Poems Project site, as is her microchap, Pandemic Times, and her latest microchap, Missing Amy, written in observance of the 10th anniversary of the death of Amy Winehouse. Folding instructions are here.

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December 4 poetry reading in New Orleans

New chapbook forthcoming

100,000 Poets for Change on Louisiana's Northshore