About the Writer
Dianna Henning participated in a California Council for the Humanities Stories Grant May '08 and worked with Native Americans at the Susanville CA Rancheria-Maidu, Pit River and Paiute—developing their stories & poems. She also read through Poets & Writers for National Poetry Month, and spearheaded a creative writing festival for National Poetry Month at Lassen Community College. She taught poetry for the incarcerated (including the infamous Folsom Prison) for several years through the William James Association's Prison Arts Project and through California Poets in the Schools, as well as though several California Arts Council grants. She also ran the Arts in Corrections program for five years at the Susanville Correctional Center in CA. Her writers have won numerous awards.
Some publications: Crazyhorse, Asheville Poetry Review; California Quarterly; Seattle Review, Louisville Review; Poetry International, Ginosko (on-line); Poetry Now; South Dakota Review; Blue Fifth Review (on-line) and in Hawaii Pacific Review's "Best of the Decade 1992-2007." Dianna has work forthcoming in Red Rock Review and Visions International and Poetry Now. She was recently a Pushcart Prize nominee. Henning was selected by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission's Poet Laureate Committee for "All Poets on Deck" - a project to pay homage to first-wave area poets and to encourage literary awareness.
Henning holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier VT. She has won a fellowship through Eastern Washington University to attend the Writers' Center in Dublin, Ireland, as well as fellowships to Breadloaf at Middlebury College as well as for post-grad work at VT College. She has been accepted as a full member into PEN Writers.
She and her husband Kam are the owners of a writers' retreat, Thompson Peak Retreat and she has been running workshops from her home for fifteen years.
Her book The Tenderness House was published by Poets Corner Press in 2004 and her manuscript "The Everlasting," selected by Gerald Locklin, won first place in '91 through Event Horizon’s Press (Palm Springs) book award.
She also co-edited Small Moments in Time: Memories of Lassen County under a California Council for the Humanities Stories Grant '08.