Loretta Diane Walker
1958 –
2022
Loretta Diane Walker was born in Dawson, Texas, on September 6, 1958. She received a bachelor of music education degree from Texas Tech University and earned a master’s of elementary education from the University of Texas Permian Basin.
Walker is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Day Begins when Darkness Is in Full Bloom (Blue Light Press, 2021). The recipient of the 2011 Blue Light Press Book Award and the 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Award for Poetry, she taught elementary music in Odessa, Texas, for thirty-nine years.
Walker died in Odessa on July 5, 2022.