Publications
REVIEW: Junk Shop Window: Essays on Myth, Life, and Literature by James J. Patterson in hippocamus magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
When I picked up James J. Patterson’s lovely Junk Shop Window: Essays on ...
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We have to be Honest: An Interview with Kathryn Silver-Hajo in fractured
By Diane Gottlieb |
Wolfsong (ELJ Editions 2023), Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s first full-length publication, is a gorgeous hybrid ...
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Exploring Relationships Through Form: A Conversation with Jennifer Lang in Chicago Review of Books
By Diane Gottlieb |
Imagine putting your relationship under a microscope and then sharing what you’ve ...
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LETTING IN THE LIGHT: A CONVERSATION WITH ANA MARIA SPAGNA In the rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
Ana Maria Spagna is a master at bringing the power and beauty of ...
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Chronicling Loss—and Joy: An Interview with Jill Talbot about The Last Year: Essays in MER (Motherhood Literature & Art)
By Diane Gottlieb |
Sending a child off to college or out on her own is ...
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THE IN-BETWEEN-NESS OF THINGS: AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID GROFF in the Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
During unsettled, unsettling times, we often look to poetry to make sense ...
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Heavenly Bodies in Seven Parts by Diane Gottlieb in SugarSugarSalt Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
You want to matter. Everybody wants to matter. Physics and you were ...
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Diane Gottlieb Interview – The ScapeGoat Guild Podcast
By Diane Gottlieb |
Compelling author and editor Diane Gottlieb talks deep with us about resilience ...
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A TIME TO SPEAK DIRECTLY: A CONVERSATION WITH JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL in the RUMPUS
By Diane Gottlieb |
What if someone offered you hard-earned wisdom about life? Would you listen? ...
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THE SPIRITUAL FACT OF OUR ONENESS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHARIF SHANAHAN interview in the Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
THE SPIRITUAL FACT OF OUR ONENESS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHARIF SHANAHAN BY DIANE ...
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Something about Shoes in Riverteeth
By Diane Gottlieb |
I’d always avoided thrift shops. I never wanted used clothes. I feared ...
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The Years, The Years in 100 Word Story
By Diane Gottlieb |
When the aides on the night shift drift off to sleep, residents ...
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The Only Thing Left, How Does It Feel in Identity Theory
By Diane Gottlieb |
The Best 22-Word Poems Of 2022 ( 1st Prize) The ...
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Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis — review Hippocampus Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
How much time do you spend pondering your breath? Maybe a lot ...
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Whittling Away 100 words on love in The Good Men Project
By Diane Gottlieb |
We held hands, father and I, Saturday nights, as we skipped down ...
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Reconnecting the Mind and Body: An Interview with Gayle Brandeis about “Drawing Breath” in Chicago Review of Books
By Diane Gottlieb |
How many of us appreciate the miracle that is our breath? Appreciate ...
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Diane Gottlieb: At the Public Library—Surrounded by the Likely in Ordinary People Poems For Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
By Diane Gottlieb |
Diane Gottlieb: At the Public Library— Surrounded by the Likely --after Megan ...
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A Mother’s Resistance Poetry: A Review of Catastrophic Molting in Literary Mama
By Diane Gottlieb |
We’re living in trying, maddening, exhausting times. I often find myself at ...
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I Didn’t Have Sex For Almost A Decade. I Was Surprised By What I Discovered When I Finally Did in Huffington Post Personal
By Diane Gottlieb |
We did it for the first time in a Holiday Inn on ...
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What is A Criminal? Three Former “Criminals” Chapter 2
By Diane Gottlieb |
Chapter 2: "Three Former 'Criminals'" in the anthology What is a Criminal?
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INTERVIEW: Deirdre Fagan, Author of Find a Place for Me in hippocampus magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
Interview by Diane Gottlieb Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and ...
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BackStory: Five Questions with Diane Gottlieb in FlashBack Fiction
By Diane Gottlieb |
BackStory: Five Questions with Diane Gottlieb Author of From Here to Eternity What ...
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From Here to Eternity in Flashback Fiction
By Diane Gottlieb |
So, I’m going to live forever. Living forever was never my plan ...
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BREAKING THE CYCLE—A REVIEW OF SUSAN TRIEMERT’S GUESS WHAT’S DIFFERENT in Atticus Review
By Diane Gottlieb |
Susan Triemert’s brilliant collection of flash essays Guess What’s Different opens with Triemert strapped ...
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Literary Spotlight: Emerge Literary Journal (Melissa Hart interviews Diane Gottlieb
By Diane Gottlieb |
In 2011, poet and author Ariana D. Den Bleyker saw a need ...
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Antioch LitCit #31 Podcast Interview with Janet Rodriguez
By Diane Gottlieb |
Antioch LitCit #31 Podcast Interview with Janet Rodriguez
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Tombstones and Trees in The Jewish Literary Journal
By Diane Gottlieb |
I was 44 when I bought a tombstone. It was a double, ...
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Modeh-Ani in Barren Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
I started praying recently. Wake up each morning and say, Modeh ani lefanecha. ...
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REVIEW: Promenade of Desire: A Barcelona Memoir by Isidra Mencos
By Diane Gottlieb |
REVIEW: Promenade of Desire: A Barcelona Memoir by Isidra Mencos Reviewed by ...
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21 ALLEN DRIVE–SELECTED FOR THE 2023 BEST MICROFICTION ANTHOLOGY/FINALIST IN SMOKELONG QUARTERLY SUMMER MICRO CONTEST
By Diane Gottlieb |
The way the deer gathered at dusk. The way the kids lay ...
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Smoke & Mirrors with Diane Gottlieb Interview by Fannie H. Gray
By Diane Gottlieb |
The repetitive use of “the way” is very effective. Did you consciously ...
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Find A Place For Me Reveiew by Diane Gottlieb in Prism International
By Diane Gottlieb |
“I have ALS.” These are the words Deirdre Fagan’s forty-three year-old husband ...
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SHIFTING THE CONVERSATION AROUND MENTAL HEALTH: A REVIEW OF SARAH FAY’S PATHOLOGICAL: THE TRUE STORY OF SIX MISDIAGNOSES in Split LIP
By Diane Gottlieb |
Anxiety. Depression. Who hasn’t felt either or both at one point in ...
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SHIFTING THE CONVERSATION AROUND MENTAL HEALTH: A REVIEW OF SARAH FAY’S PATHOLOGICAL: THE TRUE STORY OF SIX MISDIAGNOSES
By Diane Gottlieb |
Anxiety. Depression. Who hasn’t felt either or both at one point in ...
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Poetry by Diane Gottlieb in Atlantis and other lost place in Pacific Revew Annual Review
By Diane Gottlieb |
2 poems in a Pacific Review Annual Review journal, Atlantis and other ...
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FICTION / War of the Roaches / Diane Gottlieb in Drunk Monkey
By Diane Gottlieb |
Freaked out? Of course, I freaked out. I mean, what would you do? You ...
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SO MUCH AT RISK: TALKING WITH CHRISTOPHER SOTO in the Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
It is impossible to read Christopher Soto’s debut poetry collection without having ...
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Her Mother Used to Make Her Cry Until She Learned in Variant Literature
By Diane Gottlieb |
Her Mother Used to Make Her Cry Until She Learned to speak. ...
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exploring international adoption through fiction and memoir: an interview with jessica o’dwyer in the bookends
By Diane Gottlieb |
I met Jessica O’Dwyer when we were both MFA students at Antioch ...
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What Is A Criminal? – Anthology Forthcoming 2022
By Diane Gottlieb |
“What Is a Criminal?” is a collection of essays by people who ...
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BARRELHOUSE REVIEWS: A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS BY LARAINE HERRING
By Diane Gottlieb |
There are ghosts in the room. Every room. They’re in the eaves ...
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Ecopoetry and Loss : An Interview with Ana Maria Spagna – Prism international
By Diane Gottlieb |
“If You Think the Way to Learn,” the first poem in Ana ...
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Hunger – Nonfiction from Diane Gottlieb in Atlas And Alice
By Diane Gottlieb |
Take two pieces of Wonder Bread, Classic White. Place them side by ...
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What Could Have Happened: An Interview with Nick Olson – PRISM international
By Diane Gottlieb |
Nick Olson, founder and editor in chief of the literary journal (mac)ro(mic), has ...
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Phantoms – Anthologized in “and if that mockingbird don’t sing” : Parenting Stories Gone Speculative
By Diane Gottlieb |
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Crash – “50 – Word Stories”
By Diane Gottlieb |
What if he had no ribs? No eyes? Saw her beauty with ...
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Benediction – Paragraph Planet
By Diane Gottlieb |
Benediction. It's the smell that does her in. Always the smell. The ...
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A Recurring Mistake in 100 Word Story
By Diane Gottlieb |
A Recurring Mistake Is there any other kind? Bless the soul who ...
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If You Ask – Bending Genres
By Diane Gottlieb |
It’s just a small cloth bag with a zipper that no longer ...
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Filling in the Missing Patchwork: A Conversation with Steven Reigns – The Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
Steven Reigns, the first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, has published over ...
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Heavenly Bodies in Seven Parts – Nonfiction Winner of Tiferet Journal’s 2021 Writing Contest
By Diane Gottlieb |
"Heavenly Bodies in Seven Parts" Nonfiction Winner of Tiferet's 2021 Writing Contest, ...
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How to Disappear – (mac)ro(mic)
By Diane Gottlieb |
Watch. Always watch. The day watch. The night watch. Never turn your ...
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Ragdoll – Six Sentences
By Diane Gottlieb |
My dear sister Eleanor, who was twelve years my senior and who ...
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For the Love of Deer – Emerge Literary Journal
By Diane Gottlieb |
In the deep, quiet woods that live behind her home, pine branches ...
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THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT: ALISON MCGHEE – The Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
I came to know Alison McGhee’s work several years ago, though it ...
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Dreamland Snapdragon – A Journal of Art & Healing
By Diane Gottlieb |
Dreamland Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, Summer 2021 For Purchase
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Popular Material – published in Lifespan Vol 3: Friendship Anthology
By Diane Gottlieb |
"Popular Material" published in Lifespan Vol 3: Friendship Anthology July 2021 For ...
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Private Parts – Hags On Fire
By Diane Gottlieb |
My peepee. That’s what I called it when I was nine or ...
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All Ablaze – About Place Journal: Geographies of Justice
By Diane Gottlieb |
Did it hurt? I ask David and Crystal, three and two, who ...
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Seven Things You May Want to Know about Banyons – Minnow Literary Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
Seven Things You May Want to Know About Banyans Diane Gottlieb 1. ...
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Dead Man’s Float – Longridge Review
By Diane Gottlieb |
I couldn’t bear to lose the race, but I couldn’t bear to ...
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Kill Granny – McSweeny’s Internet Tendency: A Force Outside Myself
By Diane Gottlieb |
"Kill Granny.” That’s what I call this new attack on older Americans ...
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Put Karen to Bed – The Manifest-Station
By Diane Gottlieb |
No one likes Karen. She’s loud and obnoxious. Entitled with a capital ...
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More Than Their Crimes – The Hedgehog Review
By Diane Gottlieb |
My appointment reminded me of my days on Match.com. I was driving ...
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Trauma as Inheritance – The Rumpus
By Diane Gottlieb |
Sometimes I think of footprints. The imprints of dinosaurs. Tyrannosaurus Rex, huge ...
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Podcast Appearance – Let’s Keep it Real Ep. 92
By Diane Gottlieb |
Please join Sandy Joy Weston and me for a lively, fun, and ...
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Changing the Sheets – VIDA
By Diane Gottlieb |
I’m walking into La Strada, a little Italian joint in Merrick, Long ...
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Interview with Issac Bailey – Lunch Ticket
By Diane Gottlieb |
I was first introduced to Issac Bailey at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit ...
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Mother (Inspired by Grace Paley) – Panoply
By Diane Gottlieb |
One Sunday, I was flipping through the Times and stopped short at a photo ...
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Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike) – Hippocampus Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
Thrilled to see my essay "Another A&P (My Apologies to John Updike)" ...
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Finding Her Way Home: Uplake by Ana Maria Spagna – Entropy Magazine
By Diane Gottlieb |
Please join me this holiday weekend on a trip to the magnificent ...
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When You Write What Scares You—And Then See It in Print in Brevity Blog
By Diane Gottlieb |
An essay I wrote was just published last week. It was my ...
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Becoming Buddha – Lunch Ticket
By Diane Gottlieb |
Published on Lunch Ticket "I’m actually in the best place I’ve been ...
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FLOBEL Interview – Nectar News
By Diane Gottlieb |
Creative writer, English tutor and FLOBEL advisor Diane Gottlieb is embarking on ...
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Progress? – Lunch Ticket
By Diane Gottlieb |
A tongue-in-cheek look in Lunch Ticket at our fascination with, and increasing ...
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Those Who Have and Those Who Don’t – Lunch Ticket
By Diane Gottlieb |
A post on Lunch Ticket discussing educational access, from an educator's point-of-view
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