Diana Whitney is a queer writer and educator embracing a fierce belief in the power of poetry as a means of connection to self and others. She is the editor of the bestselling anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, winner of the Claudia Lewis Award, and the author of two full-length poetry collections, Wanting It and Dark Beds. An advocate for survivors of sexual violence in her Vermont hometown and beyond, Diana works as a community organizer for a rural LGBTQ+ nonprofit.