Diana J. Dell

After graduating from West Virginia University, I was a newspaper journalist and English teacher. In 1970, two years after my brother was killed in the Mekong Delta, I went to Vietnam as a civilian with USO, where I was director of public relations. Upon leaving the war zone, I was a freelance writer and photographer in Greece, Spain and Germany. Later I owned an advertising agency, was a social worker, and taught history and journalism classes at the college level. Besides writing screenplays, I am the author of "Memories Are Like Clouds" and "A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories." I have a son and three grandchildren. One of my screenplays, "My Name is Anna Busch," a World War II drama, has been optioned by producer LaMont T. Cain, CEO of The Reserve Entertainment Group, and is in development.