About Me - Bio & Interview

Bio

Diane Spodarek was born in Ontario, Canada and lived in Detroit, Michigan until her move to New York in 1981. From 2005 to 2008, she worked as a playwright and actor in New Zealand. She traveled from 2009 until 2013 when she returned to New York City, where she lives with her daughter in the West Village as part of the Westbeth Artists Housing Community.

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Diane Spodarek is a Canadian-American artist and writer, a recipient of artist’s fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Michigan Council for the Arts. She is published in KGB Lit Magazine and anthologized widely including “Young Women’s Monologues from Contemporary Plays,” Tribes 12,” “Reverie: Ultra Short Memoir,” “Nuyorican Stars in the Fire Anthology,” and forthcoming in “Dumped: Women Unfriending Women," She Writes Press, 2015.

http://westbeth.org/wordpress/artist/diane-spodarek-writer-artist-performer/ 

Interview with  John McCafferty, Interviews Editor of KGB Lit Bar Magazine:

http://kgbbar.com/lit/non_fiction/the_drunk_monologues_sobriety_is_overrated