ABOUT

Diane R. Wiener is a gender nonconforming (GNC), Neuroqueer, Mad, Crip, Ashkenazic Jewish poet/writer, editor, musician, artist, disability rights advocate, and educator who lives with two rapscallion cats in Owego, NY. Diane is the author of the poetry collection, The Golem Verses (Nine Mile Press, 2018), and the poetry chapbook, Flashes & Specks (Finishing Line Press, 2021). Her poems also appear in Nine Mile Literary Magazine, Wordgathering, Tammy, Queerly, The South Carolina Review, Welcome to the Resistance: Poetry as Protest, Diagrams Sketched on the Wind, Jason’s Connection, and elsewhere. Her creative nonfiction appears in Stone Canoe, Mollyhouse, and The Abstract Elephant Magazine; flash fiction appears in volumes 2 and 3 of Ordinary Madness.

After serving as Guest Editor for Nine Mile Literary Magazine’s Special Double Issue on Neurodivergent, Disability, Deaf, Mad, and Crip poetics (Fall 2019), Diane was appointed Assistant Editor. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, housed at Syracuse University. Diane has published widely on Disability studies and cultures, Mad pride, pedagogy, social justice, and empowerment, among other subjects. She blogged for the Huffington Post between May 2016 and January 2018.

Services Diane provides include editing, collaboration and networking, speaking engagements, reading events for poetry and creative writing, and assistance with accessibility.

CONTACT

• Email: diane.wiener@gmail.com

• Website: dianerwiener.com

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• Facebook: @roche4