Diane Vadino is a writer and visual artist from New Jersey. She is a graduate of Columbia University, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.  

In other words: I am a visual artist who works with objects, both found and created, to explore such themes as violence against women, disappearing (or disappeared) communities, and the war currently underway between our end-stage acquisitiveness and the natural world. My current projects include photographing the highest points of the 99 counties of Iowa, working with pulped, recycled paper on images of paint-by-numbers woodland scenes, and a collection of posters exploring the ways in which all work is, by an expansive definition, sex work.  

As befits my parallel life/career/point of view as a fiction writer, text — whether words themselves or the narrative context in which these objects are created — plays either a central or foundational role in much of my work.