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 Diane Wilson is a creative nonfiction writer. Her essays and memoir use personal experience to illustrate broader social and historical context. Her first book, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, (Borealis Books, 2006) won the 2006 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir, Autobiography, and Creative Nonfiction. Her second book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life, (Borealis Books), was released in September 2011.
Spirit Car is an historical memoir about cultural identity and heritage. This project has received awards from the Jerome Travel & Study program, the Minnesota Historical Society, Norcroft Writer’s Retreat, and Blacklock Nature Center. Beloved Child--a collection of personal stories on transforming historical trauma--has received awards from the Jerome Travel & Study program, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Ragdale Artist Residency, and the Hedgebrook Residency for Women Writers.
Her work has been published in Fiction on a Stick; American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice; Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time; The American Indian Quarterly, The View from the Loft, Minnesota Women’s Press, Pioneer Press and many other local publications. She was the editor for Minnesota Literature, a newsletter containing news and information of interest to Minnesota’s writing community, from 2002-2004. She is a past board chair and member of SASE: The Write Place, and the founder and editor of The Artist’s Voice, a publication of artists writing about their own work, published by the Southern Theater.
Diane is the Executive Director of Dream of Wild Health, a Native owned 10-acre farm in Hugo, Minnesota. She lives with her artist husband, Jim Denomie, Emma the love bully, and two stray cats. A master gardener, Diane maintains a large butterfly garden filled with native plants. She is a member of the Dakota Kiciya and helps organize the Dakota Commemorative Marches on the Lower Sioux reservation.
Diane’s work is inspired by her daughter, Jodi, and her wonderful family. She is also blessed with two step-daughters, Cheryl and Sheila, a step-son, Cody, and six grandchildren, Tyler, Kelci, Logan, David, Bradley, and Kyle.
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“I am humbled by the absolute beauty of Beloved Child. I have witnessed sacred places that speak to my soul and instantly bring tears, yet I cannot articulate that truth as Diane Wilson has within these pages. This book gives us tools to listen to our hearts."
--Ramona Kitto Stately
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