Diane Averill is the author of Branches Doubled Over With Fruit (1991) and Beautiful Obstacles (1998), both finalists for Oregon Book Awards. Her work has appeared widely in literary journals and anthologies, including CALYX, Tar River Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Carnegie-Mellon Anthology of Poetry, and, most recently, Deer Drink the Moon: An Anthology of Native Poems by Oregon Writers. Her third chapbook, For All That Remains, was published in May 2007. She teaches at Clackamas Community College when she isn't hiking trails in the Columbia Gorge or the Olympic Peninsula.