Diane Eagle Kataoka

Diane Eagle Kataoka lives at eight thousand feet in the Eastern Sierra, where she skis and hikes. A researcher for the late Leon Uris (Trinity and The Haj), she was director of marketing and communications for the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, as well as editor-in-chief of the Mammoth Times and Mammoth Sierra Magazine. She is a freelance writer and editor, poet and blogger. (Visit her blog, View from the Eagle’s Nest, at mammothlakesview.com.) Her chapbook Snow Globe, published by Two Birds Press, is a poetic history of five seasons in a mountain ski town.