Born: 1963, United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist. Her poems have appeared widely in magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. She wrote the “Life in Transition” blog at The American Scholar. Her poetry has also been featured in the collections “Nameless Boy,” “In America” and others. For 21 years, Goetsch was a New York City public school teacher at Stuyvesant High School and Passages Academy in the Bronx, where she ran a creative writing program for incarcerated teens. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and The New School, where she served as the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow. Goetsch’s latest work, “This Body I Wore: A Memoir,” is featured at the 2022 National Book Festival.