Excavating Light

A native of Dyersburg, TN, Diana Ewell Engel has written poetry most of her life. She worked as a librarian in NC for eighteen years before becoming a freelance writer and caregiver. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies. She created and taught a twelve-week Verve of Verse workshop at Penn-Griffin Middle School which culminated in a student reading and the student anthology, Sharing the Light. At the Greensboro Creative Center, she became friends with visual artists and led another long workshop, Ice Melting on a Hot Stove. As a writing facilitator, she has volunteered for Poetry GSO and Writers' Group of the Triad. She served as WGOT president, poetry critique group facilitator, events planner, and as an editor and head of the fire & chocolate anthology project. Now residing in High Point, she is captivated by light and shadow.