Diana O'Hehir

Diana Farnham O'Hehir is a poet and writer of prose from northern California. She was born in Berkeley in 1929. She taught from 1961 to 1992 at Mills College in Oakland where she is Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Professor Emerita of American Literature. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, writer Mel Fiske. Their reunion, after 35 years of divorce, and her subsequent remarriage is recounted in a 1999 essay in salon.com.

Though not very prolific, her output of three volumes of poetry and four novels are highly regarded.

Her two most recent novels, Murder Never Forgets (2005) and Erased from Memory (2006) are mystery novels featuring a young woman and her Alzheimers-afflicted father

Works

• Summoned (poetry), 1976
• The Power to Change Geography (poetry), 1979
• I Wish This War Were Over (novel), 1984
• Home Free (poetry), 1988
• The Bride Who Ran Away (novel), 1988
• Mothersongs: Poems For, By, and About Mothers (anthology edited with Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar), 1995
• Spells For Not Dying Again (poetry), 1996
• Murder Never Forgets (novel), 2005
• Erased from Memory (novel), 2006
• Dark Aura (novel), 2008

Awards

• Summoned: Devins Award from the University of Missouri Press, 1976.
• I Wish This War Were Over, was short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize.
• Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986.
• Spells For Not Dying Again Northern California Book Award for poetry, 1997.

External links

• Official author site
• Official site for Spells for Not Dying Again
• Official site for her mystery novels
• Q&A from the same site