Since childhood, Diana has been fascinated with the written word. As an only child of working parents, she spent lots of time alone, which she filled with reading a great deal of books and filling the pages of many journals. That's how she liked to keep busy. She always expressed herself better on the page. Today, Diana is a poet, memoirist and essayist and teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program and frequently writes and lectures on the healing powers of journaling and poetry.

Her award-winning poetry, essays and memoirs have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. She is the author of six books, including the most recent, Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press, Jan 2010) with a foreword by Phillip Lopate.

Her second memoir, "Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Story," is forthcoming in June 2010 by Loving Healing Press.
For more information, please visit her website: http://www.dianaraab.com and blog www.dianaraab.wordpress.com.