Diana Scott was born in Massachusetts in 1947, and spent her childhood and adolescence in London where she was introduced to 'pacifism, democracy, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Shakespeare, opera, literature and academic achievement'. In 1968 she took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama and Theatre Arts and Greek at Birmingham University. She then began to teach English as a second language and to write poetry, which has since been widely published in magazines and anthologies. In the early seventies she became involved in the women's movement, and joined a women's poetry performance group, Prodigal Daughters, giving readings and combining poetry with dance, music and drama. In 1977 she and her co-author, Mary Coghill, published 'If Women Want to Speak, What Language do They Use?'
In recent years she has 'written a lot of poetry, read a lot of poetry books, started to make a lot of jokes, even some money, and run a thousand miles'.
Diana now lives in Leeds where she works as a poet, writer, teacher and mother.