Diana Coogle - Author/ Editor/ Teacher

Diana Coogle, a Jefferson Public Radio (Oregon and California) commentator, has published three books: An Explosion of Stars, celebrating family, friends, nature, and the arts; Living with All My Senses: 25 Years of Life on the Mountain, depicting life in the house she built, where she still lives; and Fire from the Dragon's Tongue, an Oregon Book Awards finalist. Her play Ollie, Barbara, and the Four Tea Leaves was a finalist in the Jackie White Memorial National Children's Playwriting Contest. Her commentaries are also heard weekly on WPPL in Georgia.

Diana grew up in Georgia, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, studied at Harvard, the Institut pour des Etrangers in France, and, as a Marshall Scholar, at Cambridge University in England. She teaches writing and literature at Rogue Community College and writing workshops throughout Southern Oregon. She is a Chautauqua lecturer with the Oregon Council for the Humanities. She lives without electricity but enjoys life with flowers, trees, her cat, and her classical guitar. Her son and daughter-in-law live on Vashon Island, WA, and have founded a performing arts troupe, Lelavision.

Visit Diana’s web site: www.lelavision.com/dianacoogle.
(Browse Lelavision’s fascinating work at the same time!)