Diana Woodcock’s first full-length collection, Swaying on the Elephant’s Shoulders, was published by Little Red Tree Publishing in 2011. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for the title poem in Travels of a Gwai Lo, she has been teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University/School of the Arts in Qatar since 2004. Prior to that, she lived and worked in Tibet, Macau and Thailand. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2008 (selected by Mark Strand), Nimrod, Crab Orchard Review, Atlanta Review, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals and anthologies. In May 2010, her poetry was exhibited with Li Chevalier’s paintings at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China.

Swaying on the Elephant's Shoulders (Little Red Tree Publishing, 2011)

In the Shade of the Sidra Tree (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Mandala (Foothills Publishing, 2009), Travels of a Gwai Lo (Toadlily Press, 2009)