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DIANA ELIZABETH CLARKE is a candidate for an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts at The University of Baltimore (UB) and in April of 2020 she received her Bachelor of Science in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from Utah Valley University (UVU). In her free time, Diana can be found cuddling with her dog Nala and exploring digital worlds from video gaming.
Her creative-crafting focuses on prose and poetry, however, she at times creates artwork using various mediums. During her time as an undergraduate, she developed a new form of literary criticism she refers to as Weatherlore and now her writing tends to pay close attention to weather imagery and its metaphorical elements. Diana prefers to write women-focused literary and fantasy fiction, looking to the sky and nature for inspiration. Her literary works, both prose and poetry, have appeared with Kaytell Ink Publishing, Washington Writers' Publishing House, Warp & Weave, and Touchstones: Journal of Literature & Art.
Diana's professional career consists of work in teaching, marketing/public relations, publishing (technical and literary editing), and design (graphics and books). While achieving her graduate degree, she is currently working as the PR Director for Plork Press and as a Professor of Writing for UB's Writing Department. In 2020, she worked as a scriptwriter for JeanJacques Productions and premiered two original short films on YouTube with the company. Her film "Swipe Right If You Dare" (co-written with two other JeanJacque writers) was officially selected for the 2020 Frostbite International Indie Fest.
Along with writing, Diana has a passion for dance and choreography. She professionally worked with Atlas Dance Collective for their first three seasons, where she choreographed three artistic works. In 2019, she co-founded FUSE: A Festival of Dance, Poetry, and Prose with the artistic director of Atlas Dance Collective. She has directed and produced a few screendances, Dance Is: A Literary Dance Film and Drowning, which draw on thrilling stories about her personal experience with mental health. Her choreographic work "The Fat Box" combined literature, dance, and fabric manipulation to present an autobiographical piece of artwork, which include dance choreography and memoir spoken word. Diana had the opportunity to showcase her choreography "The Fat Box," at Mudson presented by loveDANCEmore and FUSE, where it won the Audience Choice Award.
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