Diane DeCillis

Diane DeCillis, born in Detroit, Michigan, owned an award-winning art gallery for over 33 years. Her first poetry collection Strings Attached (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2014) has been honored as a Michigan Notable Book for 2015, won The 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Award for poetry, and was a finalist for the Forward Indie Fab Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Poetry. Poems, short stories and essays have appeared in CALYX, Evansville Review, Minnesota Review, Nimrod International Journal, Connecticut Review, Gastronomica, Rattle and numerous other journals.

Art, food, Lebanese culture, magic realism and the complexity of being human inform her poetry, essays and stories.