About Diane Amento Owens

Diane Amento Owens considers herself a late bloomer and is proof that it’s never too late to begin writing. As the founder of Wise Women Write™ in 2007, her mission is to encourage, empower and inspire women to share their stories within small writing groups.

She had barely turned 50 when she ignored the invitation to join AARP. She’d heard that 50 is the new 40, and although she’d retired from teaching English in her 30s to raise four daughters, she knew that motherhood didn’t have retirement options.

As her daughters grew into their own lives, Diane looked for self-fulfillment, finding it in a class for writing mothers where she met five new writer friends. She invited them to join a Wednesday night writing group she was forming.  Later the six women, all moms with 100 collective years of motherhood, published LifeLines, the award-winning for Indie Excellence anthology. After publishing LifeLines, Diane realized she was entitled to introduce herself as a writer.  Her children and spouse weren’t impressed, but strangers were. At the mid-point of her 50s, she retired from her job as a mental health paralegal and administrator to be a writer and whatever that meant.

This retirement looked more like rebirth and reinvention as her writing identity led to new journeys.  Diane began writing for FearlessFlight.com, a company whose mission is helping people overcome fear of flying. She writes a blog, coaches fearful flyers, and manages the website.

Diane Amento Owens

Drawing on her background as an English teacher and her writing passion, in 2007 she created Wise Women Write™, a workshop for Boomer women at the request of a Barnes and Noble community relations manager who wanted to reach older women interested in writing and reading.  Many of these women continue their involvement in Wise Women Write™.

Diane  continues developing materials and facilitating women’s writing groups in Scottsdale and Phoenix.  She is developing the book version of Wise Women Write™ so women everyone can benefit from the Wise Women Write™ experience she offers in Phoenix.  She finds great satisfaction in encouraging women writers to bloom. Some of these women are featured in Words of the Wise.

Her interest in aging issues led her to a briefly write Blooming Boomer, a blog on Baby Boomer issues for the Seattle PI. The more posts she wrote,  the more she realized that her passion isn’t Baby Boomer issues, but working with women writers.

Her most recent venture has been in freelance editing, specializing in nonfiction articles or manuscripts. She copyedits and writes feature articles for the quarterly Barrett-Jackson auction event programs/magazines for EventBooks LLC.

She values the stories and the wisdom she’s heard in her five years facilitating Wise Women Write™  groups. Her wise women writers provide evidence that women connect through story sharing and that women writers need one another for support, friendship and feedback. 

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