A Boston native, Dianna worked in the L.A.'s film business as a freelance producer and production manager on TV and film projects. While living there, she earned her MFA in Film from the American Film Institute and taught film production at UCLA Extension’s Entertainment Studies Division. Her short fiction film "Graffiti," that she initiated and produced at AFI, earned an Academy Award nomination and won several national and international film festival awards. In addition, she wrote story treatments and developed film projects, landing a development/ production deal at Paramount Pictures for the feature film “Borrowed Time.”

Her publishing credits include articles for several film industry magazines (Documentary, Real Screen, Production Update), featuring interviews with high profile filmmakers and film industry executives. After leaving L.A., she held several positions in the film industry, including Executive Director of a NC regional film commission and Executive Director of the NH Monadnock International Film Festival. Along with her MFA from AFI, she holds a B.A. in English from UMass-Boston and a M.S. in Television/Radio from Syracuse University.

Her dual timeline, historical novel, "Sea Across Time," will be published in 2027 by Historium Press. Inspired by the true account of Nantucket’s worst shipwreck, “Sea Across Time” is a mystery without a crime, a love story but not a romance, with a supernatural thread that interweaves the lives of two women more than a century apart and intertwines their fates with a spectacular twist at the end. Prior to landing on Cape Cod as a "wash-ashore," she served on the Board of Directors for Winston-Salem Writers as their VP/Programs Chair. Now she spends her free time hiking nature trails, taking sunset photos, and collecting seashells while looking for the next story that will ignite her imagination and inspire her next novel.