Diana Friedman is an award-winning writer whose fiction, articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications including New Letters, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, Bethesda Magazine and Whole Earth Review. She is the recipient of the Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Prize and a Pushcart Prize nomination, and her work has been selected as a finalist and short-listed at multiple presses. She has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, the Maryland State Arts Council, and was a National Park Artist-in-Residence at Catoctin Mountain Park. Diana is extremely passionate about teaching. She has taught creative writing at Writopia Lab, professional writing at the University of Maryland and facilitated small group workshops. She currently co-leads a long-term writing group at the New Directions Program at the Washington/Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and co-facilitates an online collective of artists and writers.