Diana Pinckney

Diana Pinckney is the winner of the 2010 Ekphrasis Prize and Atlanta Review's 2012 International Poetry Prize. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 5 times. Cream City Review, Crucible and Persimmon Tree are among the journals that have given her awards. Published in RHINO, Cave Wall, Green Mountains Review, Tar River Poetry, The Pedestal magazine, Main Street Rag, Iodine & other journals and anthologies, in 2013, she received the Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts Award. Pinckney's first book won contests from South and North Carolina presses. She has four books of poetry, including her latest full-length collection, The Beast and The Innocent. Diana assures any interested readers that her new book is not all beasts and not all innocent. Visit her website at www.dianapinckney.com.