About

Diane Sherlock writes into rupture — the moment a pattern breaks and something unexpected survives. Her books are for the reader who has healed enough to be dangerous: someone who knows that recovery doesn’t restore the old system, it rewrites the rules entirely.

Her authority spans forms: she’s a SAG-AFTRA member and MFA graduate (Antioch University, Los Angeles) whose work in film and television — as screenwriter, producer, production manager, business owner, and creative consultant — taught her that every medium has a grammar, and that breaking it on purpose is a skill. Her flash fiction piece The Green Bench became an award-winning short film. Her writing appears in The Rumpus, The Manifest-Station, The Citron Review, and others. She has been a Pushcart nominee, an Art Smith Literary Prize finalist, and a screenwriting finalist for Austin, Nashville, Sundance Table Read, and the Nicholls Fellowship.

The question she has never stopped asking is this: Why does the wound so rarely travel back to its source — and so often toward someone who can’t defend themselves?

Everything she writes is an attempt to stay inside that question long enough to find out.