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ABOUT

Diana Fenves
My work is epic, bold, and dark. My phobias are many, but so are my joys. I’m interested in the elevated domestic – everything from postpartum horror to the future of dating. I have an unabashed love for genre and the rich sound language.
 

I live in North Carolina with my husband and two children. 

Life is Hopeless, but not serious.

A favorite expression of my grandfather’s. This Hungarian phrase captures my dark sense of humor.

* MY WORK IS Surreal Speculative
Dark Funny Satiric
Culturally Displacing
Feminist And Rooted
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Rooted in Hungary & Texas

I am first generation American on my father's side. My perspective is shaped by my father's experience as a communist refugee and the son of holocaust survivors. I was raised in Texas where my mother's family has lived for four generations, creating a unique Southwestern Jewish tradition.

Inspirations
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Octavia Bulter; C. J. Cherryh; Ursula Le Guin

Jorge Luis Borges; Joan Miro; Karel Capek; Harold Pinter

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AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS.

Fiction

  • *My short story "Babytalk" was nominated by Wildscape for the Best of Small Fictions 2026 Anthology (selections have been delayed.)

  • * Second Place in Lilith Magazine's Fiction Contest (2024)

  • * Finalist: The Texas Review Press' George Garret Fiction Prize

  • Residencies: Weymouth Center and the Vermont Studio Center

  • MFA: NC State, 2016

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Theatre

  • IKE (or the Tale of the Floating Flamingo), produced by Slant of Light Theatre Company in 2010.

  • WHARPED: How to Build a Bomb, (Produced at Hampshire College, 2009; rehearsed reading by Slant of Light Theatre Company, 2011; Texas Dramatist's Reading at Stages Theatre in Houston 2013.

  • * Semi-Finalist for Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte's nuVoices

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