About Diane

A Lunar Codex laureate, her work has been archived on the Moon as part of an international project preserving contemporary arts and literature. Her poetry has also inspired short films, including My Mother in Dali Vision, recipient of the Judges’ Choice Award at Michigan State University’s Filmetry program.

Writing across genres, DeCillis explores the rich intersections of art, science, memory, music, history, mythology, and the natural world. Her work is driven by a fascination with perception—how we experience life through the senses, how beauty and loss shape one another, and how unexpected connections illuminate what it means to be human.

Before turning full-time to writing, she owned and directed an art gallery for more than three decades, an experience that continues to inform the visual imagination and sensory textures of her work.

She is currently completing Curator of the Senses, a poetry collection, as well as Crime and Sweets, an original musical, and The Art of Not Forgetting, a collection of lyric essays.

She lives in Michigan.