Diana M. Raab, MFA, RN is a memoirist, essayist and poet. She teaches memoir, journaling and poetry in the UCLA Writers Program and the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. She also narrates and teaches workshops around the country.

Diana has been writing from an early age. As an only child of two working parents, she spent a lot of time crafting letters and keeping a daily journal. In university she studied journalism, health administration and nursing, all serving as platforms for her years as a medical and self-help writer.

She's editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (USC Press - Jan 31, 2010) which is a collection of essays written by well-known writers who journal, including Sue Grafton, Kim Stafford, Dorianne Laux, John DuFresne, James Brown and Michael Steinberg, to name a few. The foreword is written by the world-renowned personal essayist, Phillip Lopate.

Raab's memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (2007) is the recipient of The 2009 Mom’s Choice Award for Adult Non-Fiction, the 2009 National Indie Award for Excellence in Memoir, as well as other high honors.

Raab's work has been published in numerous literary magazines and has been widely anthologized. She has one poetry chapbook, My Muse Undresses Me, and two poetry collections, Dear Anais: My Life in Poems For You, winner of the 2009 Next Generation Indie Award for Poetry and the newly released The Guilt Gene (October 2009).