Born in St Petersburg, Russia, Diana Thoresen is a Russian-Australian writer who has divided her time between the United States, Russia and Australia. She has published several books of poetry and has been internationally published in newspapers, printed anthologies, literary and metaphysical journals. While studying in Philadelphia, she discovered a passion for American poetry and began writing at the age of 15. Diana is a graduate of St Petersburg State University which has a reputation for having educated the majority of Russia's political elite, including presidents Vladimir Putin and Dimitry Medvedev.

Diana currently resides in Palm Cove, Far North Tropical Queensland, where she's working on a book of poems about the nature of memory, perception and the holographic principle, entitled ''Neuro-Imaginations.'' She is also translating ''My World'' by Viktor Grebennikov. Her interest in spirituality was sparked by her mother's research into psychotronics and torsion physics. She also received her Master/Teacher training in Usui and Sekhem Seichim Reiki at the Atlantis Rising Mystery School, Australia. Diana worked as a writer/translator for Spintronics Inc, a free energy research and technology development start-up based on early work of John R. Searl.

Diana Thoresen is an avid reader, photographer, and seeker of knowledge about metaphysics, art, science, ancient civilizations. The Australian night sky provides her with a constant source of inspiration, awe and longing for the ineffable.

All proceeds from Diana Thoresen books and The Red Hibiscus: Anthology go to the RUSSAR Fund, a non - globalist foundation to re-build Syria and the Middle East which cooperates with the UN/UNESCO and the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society.