Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC and currently lives in Oakland, California. She attended the Corcoran College of Art in DC, and earned a PhD in Geography at UCLA. Her books of poetry include a collaboration with Tina Darragh and Jane Sprague in #8 of the Belladonna Elders series, No List (no list), Seeing Eye Books, Flim-Yoked Scrim, Factory School, and When You Awake from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. “InHouse,” appeared in Kindergarde, the First Avant Garde Anthology for Children and was included in the Black Mountain Anthology from Lorimer Press. Her poem, “Fade on Family,” was used by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster, and performed in 2005 as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound series at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. She was a member of the Los Angeles-based Readers Chorus that performed at Disney Hall, and the Museum of Jurassic Technology, among other places. She is a UCCE Master Gardener and works alongside others to advance urban agriculture in Oakland.
