Diane Zinna

Diane Zinna is the author of The All-Night Sun (Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the Cabell First Novelist Award. She received her MFA from the University of Florida and worked for ten years at AWP, the Association of Writers Writing Programs, which hosts the largest literary conference in North America each year. In 2014, Diane created the Writer to Writer Mentorship Program, helping to match more than six hundred writers over twelve seasons. Her new craft book on the art of telling our hardest stories, Letting Grief Speak, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press and is based on her work teaching a free class, Grief Writing Sundays, for the past five years. Meet her there or online at dianezinna.com.