Diane Wald

Diane Wald is an American poet and novelist. Her most recent poetry collection is The Warhol Pillows. 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. The Bayrose Files, from Regal House Publishing, is forthcoming in 2025.

Awards and honors

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
Winner for Gillyflower in Novella category, Next Generation Indie Book Awards
Winner for Gillyflower in fiction, 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 Wonderbender, 2011, 1913 PressThe Warhol Pillows, 2021, Finishing Line Press

Chapbooks

My Hat That Was Dreaming Double Mirror Improvisations on Titles of Works by Jean Dubuffet

''Faustinetta, Gegenschein, Trapunto''

Novellas

Gillyflower https://www.gillyflowernovel.com

Novels

2021: My Famous Brain https://www.myfamousbrain.com