When Margaret Brownley asked her friend, Diantha Ain, to write a couple of haiku for the book she was working on, Grieving God's Way, Margaret got more than she bargained for. Diantha tapped into her own personal losses, including the loss of a child, and wrote hundreds of haiku that highlighted the many positive and uplifting themes of the book. "I knew that she was one talented lady, but that she could so accurately capture in a few words, and in so many different ways, what I had gone through in my own grief, blew me away!"

Diantha claims that haiku has helped her acquire a clearer focus on her life and creative goals, but her work also enables readers to put into words the pain and heartache that is often so hard, if not altogether impossible, to express. Diantha reaches into the very heart and soul of grief in a way that few people are able to do.

An actress, writer, poet, artist, and teacher, she has won numerous awards, including a Family Circle's "Leaders of Readers" Merit Award for the unique program she developed with her book, What Do You Know About Succotash?

Her haiku have been published in many anthologies, and she is a contributing editor for Bereavement magazine. She has also created a line of haiku note cards for all occasions.

Diantha and her husband Bob live in Southern California. They have two grown children and two grandchildren. Diantha is presently working on a series of haiku books.