Charlene Diehl is a writer, editor, performer, and director of THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. She also edits dig! magazine, Winnipeg's bi-monthly jazz publication. She has published essays, poetry, non-fiction, reviews, and interviews in journals across Canada, and has to her credit a scholarly book on Fred Wah as well as a collection of poetry, lamentations, and two chapbooks, mm and The Lover's Handbook. Two excerpts from Out of Grief, Singing, which first appeared in Prairie Fire magazine, won Western Canadian Magazine Gold Awards.