Dianna Graveman, BSEd, MFA, has taught most grades from Kindergarten through graduate school. She has also worked as a magazine and trade book manuscript editor, training designer, and communications specialist and is currently a member of the MFA faculty at Lindenwood University in Missouri. Her writing portfolio includes co-authorship of four regional histories and over fifty short fiction and nonfiction pieces in magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and literary/trade journals.

Missouri Writers Guild President's Award for fiction, 2010; "Best of Prose," Kansas City Voices, 2009; Missouri Writers Guild Award, 2009;
Saturday Writers Fiction Award, 2009;
Whispering Prairie Press Fiction Award, 2009
Writers Society of Jefferson County Contest, 2009
Catholic Press Association Award, 2008
Missouri Writers Guild Award for nonfiction, 2008 and for fiction, 2008
Catholic Press Association Award, 2007
Missouri Writers Guild Award for inspirational, 2007 and for nostalgia, 2007
Editor's Choice, Adams Media, 2007
Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, 2007
ByLine Magazine for poetry, 2005 and for nonfiction, 2005.

Member of Distinction, St. Louis Writers Guild
Distinguished Alumni Award, St. Charles Community College, 2007
Distinguished Alumni Award, Missouri Community College Association, 2007
Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2005
Summa cum laude, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1997
University Scholar Award, UM-St. Louis, 1994-1995

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