Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who By Fire (Harper Perennial, 2008) and Skinny (Harper Perennial, 2011) and of the New York Times column Going Off. She has written for GQ, O The Oprah Magazine, CNN Living, Esquire, New York Magazine, New York Observer, Paris Review, Self, Details, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Slate, Nerve, Glimmer Train Stories, PANK, Brevity, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, including Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader (W.W. Norton, 2013) and True Tales of Lust and Love (Counterpoint/Soft Skull, 2014). She is also a seven-time Moth StorySLAM winner and has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth podcast, The Daily Dish, and NPR. Flavorwire named her one of "50 Writers You Need To See Read Live."
After receiving her MFA degree from the University of Montana, she was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University and the writer-in-residence at Portsmouth Abbey School. A 2012-2013 LABA Fellow, a 2013 fellow of the Sozopol Fiction Seminars in Bulgaria, a 2014 Visiting Artist at The Betsy Hotel, and winner of The San Miguel Writers' Conference 2014 Writing Contest, she teaches writing in New York City, for The Wounded Warrior Project, and for Stanford University's Online Writer's Studio.
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