Diana Hume George is the author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America and co-editor of The Family Track, an anthology of essays. An essayist, poet and critic, her other books include A Genesis, Koyaanisqatsi and Blake and Freud. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays and such publications as River Teeth, Creative Nonfiction and MS. She is the former director of the gender studies and creative writing programs at Penn State at Erie. She has been a visiting writer at Davidson College, Antioch/LA, Ohio University, and University of North Carolina/Wilmington. She is a co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival and contributing editor of Chautauqua Journal. Her "Watching My Mother Hallucinate" was named a Notable Essay of 2008 by Best American Essays. Her new book of poetry, Body Parts, will be published by Edinboro Book Arts in 2011.
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