Dyane Fancey

Originally from Washington, DC, back when, in Dyane's words, it was still a sleepy Southern town, Dyane lived most of her life in Baltimore, MD, after a brief sojourn in San Francisco. She was a gifted student at the famed Maryland Institute Collee of Art and graduated with honors from Towson University, where she majored in English. She was loved and greatly admired by literally all the poets in the lively, often fractious Baltimore poetry scene, and equally loved by her fans and customers at a restaurant in Baltimore's Mount Vernon area, called the Great American Melting Pot, Gampy's for short. Perhaps some of the latter did not know she was a great poet, but all knew and knew well that she was a great wait-person! Thanks to her wide range of acquaintances, Dyane made a huge success of a poetry reading series that ran at the Angel Tavern in Fells Point every Sunday evening for three full years and ended only when the Angel Tavern was sold. Her marriage to classical radio personality and film scholar, Reed Hessler, was long and loving and hot, and it brought great joy to them both.. He has preserved her memory and her poetry magnificently and has celebrated Dyane's life by bringing to light many previously unpublished poems. Dyane never stopped writing.