Diana Arterian is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces (Essay Press, 2017), Death Centos (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and co-editor of Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics (Ricochet, 2016). A Poetry Editor at Noemi Press, her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Millay, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo, and her poetry, criticism, conversations, and translations have been featured in BOMB, Denver Quarterly, LitHub, Los Angeles Review of Books, NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and The Poetry Foundation website, among others. Diana holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently Assistant Director for Los Angeles Poet Laureate Robin Coste Lewis' Poetic Truths & Reconciliation Commission: Los Angeles project. This spring, she was the Visiting Emerging Poet-in-Residence at Wichita State University.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
For Everyone Who Never Got to Be Innocent: On Jenny Zhang’s “My Baby First Birthday”
Diana Arterian celebrates “My Baby First Birthday” by Jenny Zhang....
Andouni: The Shared and Unshared Songs of Armenian Exile
"My great-grandfather often was quiet and rarely spoke, if at all, about what he endured. My knowledge of what happened is limited — impossible to verify."...
A Dialogue on First Books, in Two Parts
Diana Arterian and Andrew Wessels interview each other about their debut books....
Where There Is No Love
AS A YOUNG MAN in the mid-1500s, St. John of the Cross focused on reforming Carmelite Catholicism, adopting itchy robes, casting ...
On the Harmed Body: A Tribute to Hillary Gravendyk
Thinking about pain and the body on the occasion of Hillary Gravendyk's birthday, a year after her passing....
Famous Last Words: Diana Fuss’s “Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy”
THE ELEGY HAS A HISTORY going back almost as far as poetry itself. Though it has come to mean a lyrical ...
BLARB BLOG POSTS
BLOG POST
Livilla’s Urn
LOAD MORE
