Diana Diaz. Writer.  

 

 

Creative Writing:

 

 “Dropping Dimes” Latina Outsiders  2018, Print, CUNY/SUNY NYC

 

“By Any Other Name” The Red Wheelbarrow 2014, Print, DeAnza College, CA

 

“Why One Latina Kept Her Last Name” Latino Flavored, NYC 2007 Online

 

“Have Skin Will Travel.”  Blue Mahogany Magazine, Chicago IL,  2007 Online.

 

“Just John” A Cup of Comfort for Mothers To Be.  NYC,  Adams Media, 2006 Print

 

Newspaper Articles:

 “Facing Yusef Salaam of the Central Park 5 ” HuffPost, 2016  Online

various articles,  Caribbean Voice, NYC, 2005 - 2009 Print and Online.

 

Reference Articles:

"Newyorican Film” Encyclopedia of Latino Culture: From Calaveras to Quinceañeras. Phoenix, AZ:  ABC-CLO Greenwood Press Imprint, in publication.  2013 Print.

 

Editing:

Hispanic Editor and Community Liaison,  Caribbean Voice Newspaper 2006 - 2009

Editor "KEVIN COLE: Straight From The Soul " Blue Lotus, Book Publishing  June 2012

 

 

 

Conferences:

Panel participant/presenter, New Audience Project: How to Reach Your Audience, NoMAA, NYC, New York, October 2011

 

Presenter, Master of Ceremonies, "CariCom Awards'," The Caribbean Voice, Brooklyn, New York, February 2006

 

Panel participant/presenter, The Black Latino/a Experience: A Celebration of Race in the

Latino/a Community, Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey,

April 2005

 

Presenter, "Tearing Down the Yellow Wallpaper."SCAPRA Conference, Condado, Puerto Rico, May 1994

 

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Featured writer, Staged readings, Rough and Ready, TheaterLab, New York NY, November 2015

 

Playwright, Walking Aimlessly, New Moon Short Play Festival, Luna Stage, West Orange, NJ, May 2014

 

Producer, El Barrio Remembers Piri: Down These Mean Streets, 45 Years Later, at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY February 2012

 

Panel Writer, El Barrio Remembers Piri: Down These Mean Streets, 45 Years Later, at El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York February 2012

 

Featured poet, Staged readings, Rough and Ready, TheaterLab, New York NY, November 2011

 

Producer,  Latino Poets: In our Own Voices, Fifth Avenue Society, June 2006

 

Artistic Consultant, Machismo Redefined Poetry Troupe,  The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY, January 2005 – June 2006

 

Producer, Arts Among Us, National Puerto Rican Forum, Bronx, New York, March 2005

 

Featured writer, Women for Women; an Evening of Monologues, Theater For the Future and Push Productions, Here Arts Center,  New York, NY, May 2004

 

 

 

2018 VONA prose residency with David Mura, Berkeley, CA

2017 Can Serrat Writing Residency, Barcelona, Spain

2010 Writer-in-Residence, The New Audience Project (Rockefeller Grant winner)

2006 Invited Journalist,  Madrid Tourism Initiative

1993 Teaching Fellowship, UPR

1989    Trustee Scholarship, NYU

1985    NYC Regents Scholar

1981    Valedictorian, St. James Elementary School, NYC

 

 

 

1998   University of Puerto Rico, San Juan

MA,   English Literature

 

1993 New York University

BFA, Dramatic Writing Program