Diana Der Hovanessian (May 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018[1][2][3]) was an Armenian American poet, translator, and author.

Diana Der Hovanessian was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian family.

[6] For over thirty years she served as the president of the New England Poetry Club,[7] and was on the translation board of Columbia University.

[10] Der Hovanessian's poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, Paris Review, the Writer's Almanac, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, and The Nation, among many others.

Diana Der Hovanessian's awards include:[11] Her poetry has been translated into Armenian, Greek, French and Romanian.