Rene Diedrich Biography

Rene Diedrich is an internationally published poet and anthologist working on a trio of novels about her brief but disastrous marriage to an abusive attorney whose personality disorder and lust for underaged girls drove him to plot against her and ultimately ruin his own reputation and law practice. MC Bruce moonlights as a poet himself and often disparages his ex wife in these bitter forays. Many of Diedrich's recent poems are about her struggle to understand the reasons he chose to humiliate and hurt her instead of simply being honest about his need for an ornamental mate. Diedrich has never been a fan of marriage which makes the trio of novels she is working on an unlikely yet fresh effort full of magical realism, quirky characters and funny moments. Diedrich illustrates her poetry and prose with art that compliments the eclectic style she employs in her writing. She considers Jean Rhys and Bukowski her most profound influences but defers to Leonard Cohen, Yeats, Twain, Blake, Stienbeck, Parker and HST as the foundation of her literary avocation. She presently lives with her son Nick and her foster son Nic (16,14) on the lost coast where she is liberated from her marriage, the oppressive educRATS in public schools and the notion that what other people say or think matters.