Diane Thiel
Associate Professor

Office: Humanities 333
Hours: On Leave
Phone: (505) 277-3009
E-Mail: dthiel@unm.edu or diane@dianethiel.net

Diane Thiel is the author of eight books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy:  Echolocations (Nicholas Roerich Prize, 2000), Resistance Fantasies (nominated for the National Book Award, 2004), The White Horse: A Colombian Journey (2004, PEN Southwest Book Award/Nonfiction -- one of three finalists), Writing Your Rhythm (2001), Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres (2005), Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry (2005), Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction (2008), and Cleft in the Wall (chapbook, 1999).  Thiel’s translation of Alexis Stamatis’s poetic novel, American Fugue (a translation that received an NEA International Literature Award -- one of only three awarded in the country) appeared in 2008 from Etruscan Press.  Her work appears in many journals including Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, Best American Poetry 1999, is re-printed in over 40 major anthologies from Longman, Bedford/St.Martin’s, Harper Collins, Scribner, Beacon, Columbia University Press, Henry Holt and McGraw Hill, among others, and has been translated widely for international publications.  Thiel’s work has been reviewed and discussed in such venues as Poetry, the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, among numerous others.  Her work has received many awards, including the Robert Frost Award and the Robinson Jeffers Award.  Thiel received her BA and MFA from Brown University and has taught creative writing, literature and other courses for over fifteen years.  She is fluent in several languages, has traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and South America, and was a Fulbright Scholar for 2001-2002, in Odessa, on the Black Sea.  For more information, you can visit her webpage here.