Diane Williams is a storyweaver, a keeper of treasured tales, a collector of phrases, and a griot. As a griot, she shares stories from books, history, myths, legends, and folktales. Many of her stories are original. Diane has traveled around the world collecting stories. She has traveled to Africa, Germany, Hawaii, and throughout the United States to tell stories. She has also traveled to such far away places as Switzerland, Belgium, France, England, and Canada.

She has studied storytelling throughout the United States and once received a scholarship from the National Storytelling Association to further her learning of the art of storytelling through that organization. Diane's poetry has been published in a poetry book entitled Seasons To Come. Her name and biography appears in a book entitled, Storytellers - A Biographical Sketch of 120 English Speaking Tellers From Around the World. Her story, The Gift, was published in Today in Mississippi. Diane was a finalist in the National Storyteller Awards contest and placed 2nd runner up in September 1999 in a performance of her story, Annie Mae Jumps the Broom.

She recently worked on the Sheherazade - 1001 Arabian Nights, a collaboration with the Mississippi Symphony and Mississippi Ballet.
 

Diane Williams will be happy to sign a personalized message with any of the following works, should you request it.