Diane Comer was born in Italy and grew up in the Dominican Republic, Belgium and the United States. She studied nonfiction at the University of Iowa and received her PhD from the University of Canterbury. Her essays have been published in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre and elsewhere and were noted in the Best American Essays Series. She has received fellowships for creative nonfiction from the Colorado Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior to migrating to New Zealand with her in family in 2007, she taught at universities in Sweden and the US. Otago University Press published The Braided River: Migration and the Personal Essay in 2019. She teaches academic writing, memoir and personal essay at Victoria University of Wellington.

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