Diane Taylor-Sexton is a poet, visual artist and educator living in Toronto, Canada. Her visual work has been displayed in venues including the Women's Art Association, The Japanese Paper Place, University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum. She is the recipient of the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award for Poetry and the Hart House Poetry Prize. In 2023, her poetry collection Rift was published by Ekstasis Editions (Victoria, British Columbia). In 2024, she completed the Master of Arts program in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. A selection of her poetry is included in the University's 2024 Arts Anthology, Unbreakable. She is a CANSCAIP Friend, a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets and a member of The Writers' Union of Canada.