Diane Shakar

Diane Shakar (Need) lives in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn and has been writing short stories, poems, and her favorite genre short-short stories for the past twelve years. “Alan Ladd’s Necktie” was one of her first, written after a national tour with her actor husband Martin Shakar. She is very happy to be self-publishing with the members of her writing group. Her son, Greg, has assured her that a number of eminent writers—William Blake, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman—were self-published so she is in good company. When not writing she’s a dancer/actor, Reiki and Shiatsu practitioner and non-Korean, Korean drummer. Her son, Alex, a fiction writer and professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, has published a novel and book of short stories. The aforementioned son Greg is a sound sculptor traveling the world and delighting children and adults with his interactive art.