Diana Heald is a Brooklyn-based writer at work on a memoir and cultural history of antidepressants. Her essays and criticism have been featured in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Panorama Journal, Off Assignment, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.

Diana graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in Nonfiction Writing and from Bowdoin College with degrees in English and Romance Languages. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Since 2010, she has also worked in the advertising industry as a brand and digital strategist.