Diane Simmons

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rdf:langString Diane Simmons (born 1948) is an American author. She won the Oregon Book Award in for her novel Dreams Like Thunder, and the Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction for Little America. She teaches English at the City University of New York (CUNY). She published a biography of Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid, which was based on her doctoral dissertation at CUNY. Her first novel was published in 1980, and she has since published seven book-length works of fiction, non-fiction and criticism, as well as many pieces of short fiction, short non-fiction and literary criticism. Her most recent book, The Courtship of Eva Eldridge a work of reported literary nonfiction, was published by University of Iowa Press in 2016. She has held fellowships at the McDowell Colony and also served as a Fulbright Fellow to the Czech Republic. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in American Literature.