Diane Thiel list of recent accomplishments, publications, awards and readings

Diane Thiel published her book, Three Genres, with Pearson/Longman, 2011. She won the PEN Translation Award, 2010, for translation project of Eugenia Fakinou's poetic novel, The Great Green. She also was awarded a summer residency grant from the International Writers' House in Rhodes Greece. She also wrote and recorded a Longman lecture (print and audio) on Louisie Erdirch, 2011.
Her poem, "The First Sea," was published in The Burden of the Beholder: Dave Armstrong and the Art Collage, a fine art book, Colorado College press, 2010. Her non-fiction, "Memento Mori and Terza Rima," was published in Mentor and Muse, 2010. Her interview with Sherman Alexie was published in Conversations with Sherman Alexie, 2009. She has had work selected for several new anthologies from 2010-2012, including Backpack Literature from Longman, The Ablemuse Anthology, Poets of the American West, and Collecting Life: Poets on Objects Known and Imagined, among others.
Several of her poems, including "Kinder und Hausmarchen" and "Editorial Suggestive" have been set to music by composers Lori Laitman, Dale Trumbore, and David Conte and were performed in CA, NJ, FL, and others, particularly on an extensive tour in 2011. One venue in particular was Carnegie hall. Her poem, "The Minefeld," chosen for national NEA initiative, Poetry Out Loud, and was performed by high school students across the country in national competitions, particularly in 2010-11.
She visited several Albuquerque schools as a writer-in-the-schools in 2011-12. Diane Thiel was recorded on NEA nationally distributed cd about Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me Ultima. She was interviewed by NPR in 2009. Some of the readings she has given include for the Florida College English Association, 2010, Virginia Tech Creative Writing program's Reading Series, 2010, plenary speaker, Sewanee: University of the South School of Letters, 2011, Albuquerque's Local Poet's Guild, 2012.
She also designed and taught 6 new UNM online courses, and chaired or served on 7 dissertation committees.