Diana Norma Szokolyai is a writer, teacher, and Artistic Director of Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, an organization that leads writing retreats in France, Spain, and the US. Her writing appears Critical Romani Studies, The Poetry Miscellany, The Boston Globe, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and MER VOX Quarterly. Her poetry has been anthologized in Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History, Stone to Stone: Writing by Romani Women, and Teachers as Writers, as well as translated into German for the anthology of Romani poets from around the world Die Morgendämmerung der Worte, Moderner Poesie–Atlas der Roma und Sinti.  She is author of the poetry chapbooks Parallel Sparrows and Roses in the Snow, as well as editor of CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing. In 2021, she was awarded a Center for Arts and Social Justice Fellowship at Vermont College of Fine Arts for her work translating Romani poets into English. Together with Dennis Shafer, she founded ChagallPAC, an interdisciplinary arts organization. She holds an M.A. in French, an Ed.M. in Arts in Education, and an M.F.A. in Writing. She teaches writing at Salem State University. A frequenter of Spoken Word since 2006, she’s thrilled to be back!