Woman with a Fan: On Maria Blanchard - Paperback

Kendig, Diane: - Diane Kendig has worked as a poet, writer, translator, and teacher, and has authored four poetry collections, most recently, Prison Terms. She also co-edited the anthology In the Company of Russell Atkins, a tribute to the ninety-three-year-old poet and musician. A recipient of OAC Individual Artist grants and awards from Yaddo, the Fulbright Program, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kendig has published poetry and prose in journals such as J Journal, Wordgathering, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Under the Sun. As an undergraduate, Kendig studied English and Spanish and lived a year in Segovia, Spain. She began her college teaching career at Cleveland State, then taught at the University of Findlay for eighteen years, founding its creative writing program, including a prison writing program. She taught translation at Central American University in Managua, Nicaragua, after publication of her collection of Nicaraguan poet translations, And a Pencil to Write Your Name. After living ten years in the Boston area, Kendig moved home to retire in Canton, Ohio, to be with her father, who died in 2019. She bought the house he built himself when he returned from WWII. There she is writing again, alongside her husband, Paul Beauvais, and her Scottie, Robbie Burns Beaudig, and she curates a web blog with four thousand subscribers for the Cuyahoga County Public Library. dianekendig.com dianekendig.blogspot.com