Diana Powell was born and brought up in Llanelli, West Wales, and studied English at Aberystwyth University. After years of moving around and being a mother, housewife, and various ‘part-time assistants’, she settled in Pembrokeshire with her husband, in 2011. She is a winner or runner-up in many competitions and prizes, including the Chipping Norton Literature Festival Short Story Prize (2019); the Cinnamon Press Literature Award (2021); and the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize. Diana's stories have been published in several journals and anthologies. Her novella, ‘Esther Bligh’, was published by Holland House Books and her collection, ‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’, was published by Chaffinch Press in 2020. In 2022, she was commissioned by the Ancient Connections project to write a fictional account of some of Pembrokeshire’s Holy Wells. The resulting pamphlet, Song of the Water, was published by Parthian Books and her novel, Things Found on the Mountain, by Seren, both in 2023.