Dianna MacKinnon-Henning

Henning taught through California Poets in the Schools, received several CAC grants and taught poetry workshops through the William James Association’s Prison Arts Program, including Folsom Prison. Henning’s third poetry book Cathedral of the Hand published 2016 by Finishing Line Press and her fourth book, Camaraderie of the Marvelous published by Kelsay Books 2021. Publications, in part: The Orchards Poetry Journal, 2022; Suisun Valley Review, 2022; Worth More Standing, Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees, 2022; Voices, 2022; Atremis, 2022; The Plague Papers, edited by Robbi Nester; Pacific Poetry; New American Writing; The Kerf; The Moth, Ireland; Mojave River Review; the New Verse News; Sequestrum; Your Daily Poem and Naugatuck River Review. Four-time Pushcart nominee. MFA in Writing ’89 from Vermont College, Montpelier. She has new work forthcoming in Artemis Journal, The Adirondack Review, and Memoir Magazine. Dianna has been working with Lassen County students for Poetry Out Loud and she also is the facilitator for The Thompson Peak Writers' Workshop.