Diana Arterian is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing as a Merit Fellow at the University of Southern California, where she previously earned her Bachelor's in English Literature. She holds an MFA in poetry from the California Institute of the Arts, where she was a Beutner Fellow.
   Ms. Arterian is on the founding board of Gold Line Press, (a chapbook publisher), the curator of the annual Sumarr Reading Series, as well as the creator of the La Misión Writer’s Retreat in Baja, Mexico. Her chapbook Death Centos is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2013, and her poetry has appeared in River Styx and Iron Horse Literary Review, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.