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Diana Whitney

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in Oxford , The United Kingdom

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Poetry, Memoir

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Diana Whitney is a queer writer & educator embracing a fierce belief in the power of poetry as a means of connection to self and others. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award and a Nautilus award. Her essays, poems, and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Rumpus, and many more.

Diana's first book, WANTING IT, won the Rubery Book Award in poetry, and her second collection, DARK BEDS, was a finalist for the Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award. Her third collection, GIRL TROUBLE, a wild ode to raising girls, surviving rape culture, and excavating femal ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 863 ratings · 184 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	You Don't Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves 3.68 avg rating — 891 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Beds 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wanting It 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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