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Diana Whitney

Diana Whitney

Diana Whitney is the poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her first book, Wanting It (Harbor Mountain Press, 2014) became an indie bestseller and won the Rubery Book Award in poetry. Her personal essays and poems have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Glamour, Green Mountains Review, and many more. She’s currently finishing a memoir about generational patterns of female silence. www.diana-whitney.com