Publications and Prizes

• "Joy on the Wall" (poem) in Food Memories:  An International Anthology. 2021: www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/global-authors/food-memories/ebook/product-q7vprg.html?page=1&pageSize=4
• Saturday at the Food Pantry (picture book, illustrated by Brizida Magro), Albert Whitman & Co., September 2021; chosen by Parents Magazine as their October 2021 selection for their Raising the Future Book Club, and included by the Chicago Public Library in their list of best picture books of 2021: https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/saturday-at-the-food-pantry/     https://www.instagram.com/p/CU0XVr-JLAV/ chipublib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/200049033/2006117462?page=2
• "Dear Antoinette" in Letters from Here to Hereafter: An International Anthology, 2021: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1066963  
• "Growing up on food stamps, I had no idea I was despised" (op-ed) in the Chicago Sun-Times, January 2, 2020: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/1/2/21044582/food-stamps-snap-diane-oneill 
• "Hector the Superhero" (story) in LADYBUG Magazine, January 2019: https://shop.cricketmedia.com/ladybug-magazine-january-2019
• "Time Travel: J.C. Penney Photo Studio, 1994" (poem) in the 2018 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/time-travel-jc-penney-photo-studio-lit-issue/
• "Immigration and Hope," guest blog post, Solstice Literary Magazine, April 2018: solsticelitmag.org/blog/the-immigrant-experience-then-and-now-and-hope-for-the-future/
• "O Say Can You Hear" in Journal of Modern Poetry 21: Dear Mr. President, Chicago Poetry Press, 2018: www.amazon.com/Dear-Mr-President-Journal-Modern/dp/0692100644
• "Thanksgiving Still Life" (poem) in the 2017 Holiday Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/holiday-poetry/
• ​ "Nighthawks," 3rd place winner, "Chicago: The Arts," Poets & Patrons Contest 2017.
• "Reconciliation" (poem) in The Pain that Unites Us All, ​2017: www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/the-pain-that-unites-us-all/ebook/product-23351611.html
• "Jerrie" (essay) in the 2017 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/jerrie/
• "Chicago Spring, 1983" (poem) in the 2017 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/chicago-spring-1983
• "Valentin's School" (nonfiction), Highlights for Children, forthcoming (contract signed May 2017).
• "Nature and the City Kid" in Journal of Modern Poetry 19: The Poetry Writer's Guide to the Galaxy, Chicago Poetry Press, 2017: www.amazon.com/Poetry-Writers-Guide-Galaxy-Journal/dp/1545256047/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495561777
• "Friendship" (essay) and "September Thanksgiving" (story) in Womanthology: writings on women worldwide, 2017: www.lulu.com/shop/various-authors/womanthology-writings-on-women-worldwide/ebook/product-23113882.html
• "Are There No Workhouses?" (poem) in the 2016 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/are-there-no-workhouses/
• "Selective Nostalgia" in Poetry of Protest: Journal of Modern Poetry 19, Chicago Poetry Press, 2016: www.amazon.com/Poetry-Protest-Journal-Modern-19/dp/0692687580 
• "Bestfriend" (poem) in The Shine Journal (February 2016): www.theshinejournal.net/diane-o-neill
• "The Gift" (essay) in National University's Gnu Journal (January 2016): gnujournal.com/nonfiction/the-gift-diane-oneill/
• "Red Cups" (poem) in the 2015 Holiday Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/red-cups/
• "Language of the Unheard" (poem) in the 2015 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly: southsideweekly.com/language-of-the-unheard/
• "Age" (essay) in Still Crazy Literary Magazine, July 2015.
• "My Son's Race" (essay) in the 2014 Lit Issue of the South Side Weekly, based out of the University of Chicago: southsideweekly.com/my-sons-race/
• "Siblings." Runner-up winner of 2011 "Write a Dear Reader" contest; published at BookTrib.com (September 9, 2011) and at DearReader.com (September 20, 2011): dearreader.typepad.com/dear/2011/09/dear-reader-column-09-20-11.html
• "A recipe for Irish heritage" (op-ed) in The Chicago Tribune, Sunday Perspective, December 5, 2010: articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-12-05/opinion/ct-perspec-1205-irish-20101205_1_baking-soda-irish-bread-famine
• Six-word memoir included in It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, edited by SMITH Magazine, Harper Perennial, 2010: www.harpercollins.com/9780061719431/it-all-changed-in-an-instant
• ​"Remembering Maggie" (essay) in National University's The Gnu, Fall/Winter 2007.​​