Diane Gilliam

KETTLE BOTTOM is Diane Gilliam's second book and won the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing and the Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year. KETTLE BOTTOM was also an American Booksellers Association Book Sense op Ten Poetry Book, a finalist for the Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Studies Association, was selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses, and was chosen as a first-year common reading selection at Smith College. Gilliam is the author of three additional collections of poetry: Dreadful Wind & Rain (Red Hen Press, 2017), One of Everything (Cleveland State University Poetry Center in 2003), and Recipe for Blackberry Cake (chapbook, 1999). She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Ohio State University. She teaches in community workshops and as guest faculty in the low- residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Ohio Arts Council and was a recipient of the Gift of Freedom from the A Room of Her Own Foundation. Gilliam lives in Akron, Ohio.