Diana Hendry was born in the Wirral and grew up by the sea. She did very badly at school – falling in love at 13 being rather a distraction – and spent a long time catching up, which included becoming a mature student at Bristol University and later studying for an M.Litt.
Primarily a poet, Diana also writes short stories and is the author of many children’s books. She’s worked as a journalist, English teacher and a tutor at the University of Bristol, University of the West of England and the Open University. She has tutored many creative writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and for a year was writer-in-residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. She is a member of Shore Poets.  From 2008 – 2010 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow attached to Edinburgh University.  She writes the occasional book review for The Spectator.

Diana’s Awards Include:

Whitbread Award for a Children's Novel, 1991,

First prize Housman Society Poetry Competition, 1994,

Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship (with Hamish Whyte) 2007