Diane Daniel -- About Diane

About Diane Daniel

Diane's fascination with travel and people in general started when she was a young girl held captive in the back seat of her parents' Plymouth Fury. She's visited most of North America, and has spent time in Europe, the Caribbean, South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. She has lived in Greece, Italy, and Portugal.

Diane has been a newspaper writer and editor since 1982. Since 1997, she has been affiliated with the Boston Globe, where she was on staff for five years beginning a freelance career in 2002. For the Globe, Diane writes the “Where They Went” travel feature, along with other travel and feature stories. For the News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), she writes the "Who and Ware" column about regional artisans. And she writes a lot of articles in between, mostly related to the environment, travel, and, most recently, transgender issues.

Diane's farm-travel guidebook "Farm Fresh North Carolina" came out in March 2011 from the University of North Carolina Press.

Diane's work also has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, St. Petersburg Times, OnEarth, Backpacker, Gourmet, Shape, Body & Soul, AARP Magazine and AARP Bulletin, Bicycling, Adventure Cyclist, and others. She contributed to the books "Checking In 2007: Places to Stay in New England," the Boston Globe, 2006; and "The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything: The Essential Companion for Everyday Life," St. Martin's Press, 2006.

Diane is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the Society of American Travel Writers. She occasionally teaches writing workshops. In 2008, she won a national Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award for newspaper writing.

Diane lives in Durham, NC, with her partner/photographer/favorite travel companion, Lina, along with their dachshund, two cats, and handful of bicycles.