Diane Thiel
Associate Professor

Office: Humanities 333
Hours: MW 1300-1400 and by appointment
Phone: (505) 277-3009
E-Mail: dthiel@unm.edu or diane@dianethiel.net

Diane Thiel is the author of six books of poetry, nonfiction and creative writing pedagogy: Echolocations (2000), which received the Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press; Writing Your Rhythm: Using Nature, Culture, Form and Myth (Story Line Press, 2001); The White Horse: A Colombian Journey (Etruscan Press, 2004); and Resistance Fantasies (Story Line Press, 2004). Her two new textbooks from Longman: Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres, and Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry appeared in 2005. Thiel received her BA and MFA from Brown University. Her work appears in numerous publications including Poetry, The Hudson Review, Best American Poetry 1999, Beacon Best of 2000, and is re-printed in over twenty major anthologies from Longman, Bedford/St. Martin's, Harper Collins, Scribner, Beacon, Henry Holt and McGraw Hill, including Twentieth Century American Poetry (McGraw Hill, 2004). 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. Her work has received numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Award and the Robinson Jeffers Award. Thiel has taught creative writing and literature for over twelve years, is fluent in several languages and has traveled and lived in various countries in Europe and South America. She was a Fulbright Scholar for 2001-2002, in Odessa, on the Black Sea. For more information (to read poems, hear poems, read reviews, note conferences at which Thiel will be teaching, etc.) you can visit her web page.