Diane Thiel was awarded the 2000 Nicholas Roerich Award for Poetry from Story Line Press. The book, Echo locations, which includes the four poems published here, will be published in November, 2000. She also received the 1999 Robert Frost Award, the 1998 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Award for Poetry (judged by Donald Hall) and the 1990 Judith Siegel Pearson Award for Poetry. She has two chapbooks from Aralia Press and her writing guide, Writing Your Rhythm: Using Nature, Culture, Form and Myth, is forthcoming from Story Line Press in Spring, 2001. Her poems have recently appeared in The Best American Poetry: 1999, The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The Dark Horse (Scotland), among other journals. She teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. (2000)
