Since receiving an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing in 2004, Diana Woodcock has been teaching writing and poetry courses at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar.   Previously she spent seven and a half years in Asia, teaching English in Tibet and Macau, and working with refugees on the Thai-Cambodian border.  

This year Woodcock is the winner of the Creekwalker Poetry Prize, an Honorable Mention for the Robert G. Cohn Prose Poetry Award, and a finalist in Litchfield Review's 2007 poetry contest.   She is also the recipient of residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Everglades National Park, and a Summer Literary Seminars/Russia Select Scholarship as a finalist in poetry.   In 2006 Woodcock was an Honorable Mention for Nimrod's Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, an International Publication Prize winner in Atlanta Review's Poetry Competition, and a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency.   In December 2005, her poetry was exhibited with Li Chevalier's paintings at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Doha, Qatar.   In July 2005 she received a Faculty Development Grant to spend July in Assisi, Italy at Art Workshop International.   In 2004, she was a finalist for the Violet Reed Haas Award for a full-length poetry collection.