Diane Di Prima, 1934- , is an American writer, poet and editor. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, the granddaughter of the anarchist Domenico Mallozzi. She is well known for her involvement with the Beat Movement, the Jack Kerouac School of the Disembodied Poetics, and the newspaper The Floating Bear, which she edited with Amiri Baraka. She has published several books and collections of poetry, including her long poem Loba (1978), her selected poems Pieces of a Song (1990), and her memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman (2001). She has five children: Jeanne di Prima, Dominique di Prima, Alex Marlowe, Tara Marlowe, and Rudi di Prima. She was married to Alan Marlowe in 1962 (divorced 1969) and in 1972 to Grant Fisher (divorced 1975). In 2009, she was named the Poet Laureate of San Francisco, and she currently lives in Northern California.