Diane Elizabeth Hill has been a professional writer for over 25 years. She is also a poet, photographer, and visual artist.

 

Her articles, essays, and poetry have been published in Readers Digest, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Best Health, More, Carousel, The Avocet, and other publications.​

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Over the years, Diane has followed her curiosity down some unconventional paths. Three years working as an auto mechanic. Graphic designer. Therapy dog handler. Singing and playing guitar in a rock n' roll band. Counsellor for assaulted women.

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After several years as Director of Research at United Way Toronto, she went back to school to earn a Master of Environmental Studies from York University. Her final thesis project was a documentary film on democracy.

 

She spent the next 10 years at the Canadian Women’s Foundation, first as Senior Writer—founding and editing their bi-annual magazine, SHE—then as Senior Director of Public Engagement.

A few years ago, she started to play with children's finger paints as a way to challenge her chronic perfectionism, combining the abstract images with poetry. An idea for a story began to emerge, a story about healing the false divide between mind, body, spirit, and emotion. The result is her first book, Coming Home: A Poem for When You’re Feeling Lost.

Diane is now working on a second illustrated storybook, also on the theme of holistic healing.

 

When she isn't writing, she's probably reading, dancing, meditating, or walking her dogs along the shores of Lake Ontario.