Ward, Diane, 1956-

Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC on November 9, 1956. She attended the Corcoran School of Art where she met Doug Lang and Terence Winch, both of whom taught creative writing. She was initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. Ward has published more than a dozen works of poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (1994) and From the Other Side of the Century (1994). She has read widely in the United States, including the District of Columbia Arts Center, Small Press Traffic at New College (San Francisco), The Bowery Poetry Club, and The Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church. Ward has received considerable recognition for her work including the California Arts Council Artists Fellowship in Literature, a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, and the San Francisco State University Poetry Center’s Book of the Year Award.