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Diana Stout

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Diana Stout, MFA, PhD is a screenwriter, author, former English professor, who loves to coach others about writing.

An award-winning writer in multiple genres, she has published books, magazine articles, short stories, poetry, served both as a newspaper and magazine columnist, had two short plays produced in New York, and has optioned a screenplay.

She has served as a reviewer for various academic journals, as a contest judge for multiple writing organizations—both young adult and adult, and in fiction and nonfiction.

The book she's most proud of: Grendel's Mother, an epic fantasy. A ten-year project of immense research and the result of several studies.

Today, she celebrates that return to her creative-writing roots and writing full-time, ...more

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Finding Cinderella (Hopeless, #2.5)

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