Diane Elliott

Diane Elliott was born in San Francisco, grew up in Minnesota, immigrated to Montana more than thirty years ago, and plans to die with a smile on her face in her chosen country.

Her historical novel Strength of Stone was short-listed for the 2003 Saroyan Prize for Literature and garnered the 2003 Willa Finalists Award in historical fiction. She has published poetry and short stories in literary magazines and received awards from the Montana Institute of the Arts, the National Book Club and the Mary Brennen Clapp Memorial Poetry Contest. Her multimedia script, "Impersonating Bernie" written for the Montana Ballet Company, received NEA funding and was produced in 1993.

Elliott lives with her husband and her Jack Russell in Bozeman, Montana, when she’s not working from her retreat in the historic jail, nestled in the Tobacco Root Mountains, in tiny Pony, Montana.