Diane Averill

Diane Averill's first book, Branches Doubled Over With Fruit, (University of Florida Press) was a finalist for the 1991 Oregon Book Award. Her most recent collection, Beautiful Obstacles, was also a finalist for the Oregon Book Award (Blue Light Press). In addition to local and national magazines, such as The Bloomsbury Review, Calyx, Calapooya Eclipse, Hubbub, Kalliope, LUNA, Manzanita Quarterly, Midwest Quarterly, The Bitter Oleander, Pemmican, Poetry Northwest, Tar River Poetry, and The Temple, her work appears in several anthologies, such as The Carnegie Mellon Anthology, From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Writers, and Ravishing Disunities: An Anthology of Ghazals, written by English speaking people, and published by Wesleyan/New England Press. Her newest collection, For All That Remains, is forthcoming from Fir Tree Press in April 2007. Diane is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at the University of Oregon, where she won the annual award for the best poem by a graduate student. She has taught at Clackamas Community College for thirteen years.

CLR Contributions by Diane Averill

• Fall/Winter 1998: Egret Temperatures
• Fall/Winter 1998: In Answer to New Arrangements
• Spring/Summer 1999: The Effigies by Robert Hill Long
• 2006: The Pentecostal Locksmith
• 2007: Interview with Paul B. Roth