Diana Bosse

Diana Bosse has been writing her whole life—mostly in diaries, on grocery lists, and occasionally in company newsletters—along with bylines in The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Island Packet, Ladies’ Home Journal, Southern Living and Women’s Day. Writing an actual book, however, still feels like a very big deal to her.

She grew up on a cul-de-sac in a Cincinnati suburb during what she calls “the last great era to be a child”—the 1960s. After attending grade school and high school, where she “didn’t learn a thing but had a great time,” she went on to drop out of graphic design school in the early 1980s.

Diana spent twenty-five years in the corporate world at the same company, making a decent living without a college degree and traveling to exciting places like Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Seattle, and Hong Kong—an impressive upgrade for a kid who once believed Gatlinburg, Tennessee marked the edge of the earth. She later devoted fifteen years to working for the Alzheimer’s Association, a cause close to her heart after losing her mother to the disease in 1999.

She retired in 2022 and now works part-time at a local racquet club, writes when she should be exercising, and volunteers with Second Helpings, the Sea Pines Forest Preserve Foundation, and Cancer Hope Network.

Diana lives on Hilton Head Island with her husband, Steve, and crazy cat, Manny Carl.