Diana Rowland


Diana Rowland is an urban fantasy writer and is best known for her Kara Gillian Series and White Trash Zombie Series. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant. She presently lives in south Louisiana with her husband and her daughter.
Diana Rowland is a graduate of the 1998 Clarion West Writers Workshop. In 2005, Rowland won first place in the third quarter of the Writers of the Future contest for her short story "Schroedinger's Hummingbird." This was her first time entering the contest. In 2011 Rowland was nominated for an RT Reviewer's Choice award for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for her character Angel Crawford from My Life as a White Trash Zombie. In 2012 Rowland was again nominated for Best Urban Fantasy Protagonist for Angel Crawford, this time for Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues, and won. In 2013 Rowland received an RT Reviewer's Choice nomination for Best Urban Fantasy Worldbuilding for Touch of the Demon.
In 2012 the audiobook of My Life as a White Trash Zombie, narrated by Allison McLemore was nominated for an Audie award.

Kara Gillian series

A series that starts with Kara Gillian accidentally summoning a demon prince while her aunt lies in a coma at the hospital.
  1. Mark of the Demon
  2. Blood of the Demon
  3. Secrets of the Demon
  4. Sins of the Demon
  5. Touch of the Demon
  6. Fury of the Demon
  7. Vengeance of the Demon
  8. Legacy of the Demon

    White Trash Zombie series

  9. My Life As a White Trash Zombie
  10. Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
  11. White Trash Zombie Apocalypse
  12. How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back
  13. White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
  14. White Trash Zombie Unchained

    Short Fiction

  15. "Extant"-- The Age of Reason: Stories for a new Millenium, edited by Kurt Roth 1999
  16. "Schroedinger's Hummingbird" -- L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future Vol. XXII 2006
  17. "Fine Print" -- The Wild Side, edited by Mark Van Name. 2011
  18. "City Lazarus" -- Dangerous Women, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2013

    Interviews

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