Diana Arterian
she/her | editor, writer, poet, translator | Los Angeles, CA, United States
Diana Arterian is the author of the recent poetry collection "Agrippina the Younger" (Northwestern UP, 2025) and editor and co-translator of Smoke Drifts" (World Poetry Books, 2025), a collection of Nadia Anjuman's poetry. Diana's first collection, Playing Monster :: Seiche, received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and was a Poetry Foundation Staff Pick. She holds a PhD in Literature & Creative Writing from USC, writes the "Annotated Nightstand" column at Lit Hub, and lives in Los Angeles.
