Dinah Berland

Dinah Berland is a poet with a background in art. Formerly senior editor at Getty Publications in Los Angeles, she was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She earned her BFA in art and her MA in photography and also taught photography at the college level before discovering poetry. Around the age of 40, she began adding lines of text to her photographs and soon realized that there was more image in the words than in the photographs. She began publishing her poems in literary journals, including the Antioch Review, the Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and New Letters; and went on to earn her MFA in creative writing in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She has received an Individual Fellowship in Poetry from the California Arts Council and an international prize from Atlanta Review, among other awards. In 2017 Dinah was Writer in Residence at the Annenberg Community Beach House, where she drafted Fugue for a New Life (2020), winner of the WaterSedge Poetry Chapbook Contest. Her book Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women (Schocken, 2007) is a verse translation of the first Jewish prayer book by a woman for women. Dinah currently leads the Poetry Oasis Workshop (now on Zoom) from her home in Los Angeles.