Diana Morita Cole is an award-winning writer and human rights activist.

Her memoir, Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit (2015), tells of her birth as a prisoner in the Minidoka concentration camp during WW2 and her subsequent childhood misadventures on Clark and Division in Chicago. 

Sideways: Memoir of a Misfit has been translated into braille and narrated into an audio book for inclusion in the US Library of Congress' National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Her creative nonfiction works have been included on the reading lists for the Japanese American Experience lecture series at the University of Hawai’i, the Creative Writing classes at Selkirk College, and the graduate social work program at San Francisco State University. 

Cole co-narrated the short documentary, Arigato, produced by the Nikkei Cultural Society of Lethbridge. The national newspaper of the Japanese American Citizens League, the Pacific Citizen, has published her articles about the Japanese Canadian and the Japanese Latin American diaspora. She is also a contributor to Discover Nikkei. Her Cape Breton short story, "The Pitt Mines Post Office," was published by Ricepaper Magazine in 2025.

Cole gave the keynote address for opening night of the KDocsFF Social Justice Film Festival in 2021. In the same year, she was a featured author at the LiterASIAN Festival. She is a principal storyteller for Nelson Storytelling Guild Festivals. 

The Archives of the Nikkei National Museum (Burnaby) has created a collection of her work.

Cole is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors Degree in English Literature. 

Diana is married to a Vietnam-war resistor, who helped integrate the lunch counters in Georgia during the civil rights movement. She and her husband organized forums about the cruelty of residential schools in British Columbia. They live on Unceded Sinixt Territory, otherwise known as Nelson, BC.