Bio
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Diana Coogle grew up in Georgia but moved to Oregon in the "sweep West" of the late '60s. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Vanderbilt University, was a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow, studied in France and at Harvard University, and earned her MA at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar. She has taught writing at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, at numerous writing conferences, at Rogue Community College in Grants Pass, OR, and currently at the University of Oregon as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. She is a Chautauqua lecturer with the Oregon Council for the Humanities and was for twenty years a weekly commentator on Jefferson Public Radio, Ashlandm, Oregon. Her commentaries are heard currently on WPPL in Blue Ridge, Georgia. Her play "Ollie, Barbara, and the Four Tea Leaves" won an honorable mention in a national children's playwriting contest. Her first collection of selected commentaries, Fire from the Dragon's Tongue, was a finalist for the 1999 Oregon Book Awards and was followed by two other collections, "Living with All My Senses: 25 Years of Life on the Mountain" and "An Explosion of Stars." She is currently working on her Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon. |
