Diana Rico is an internationally published journalist, book and magazine editor, documentary producer-writer, and critically acclaimed author specializing in the arts and spiritual/social issues. She is the creator of HOLY WATERS: A Blog About Diving into the Numinous, which features her own work as well as that of invited guest artists in all media. HOLY WATERS is syndicated on the Web on OdeWire.

Rico is also the founder of the wordARTist, a company offering writing, editing, producing, and website content development for artists and arts organizations around the world, and of jumpstART creative coaching, powerful group workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions that help artists in all media dissolve creative blocks. 

Rico's articles been published in American Film, Architectural Digest, ARTnews, City (Paris), Domus (Milan), Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, the International Herald Tribune, Mother Jones, ODE Magazine, Whole Life Times, and many other national and international publications. Her book  Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), about the pioneering 1950s tv comedian who influenced David Letterman, Garry Shandling, and Saturday Night Live, was praised by Variety as “the sort of serious treatment great television artists deserve.” The book landed Rico interviews on Larry King Live!, CBS Nightwatch with Charlie Rose, and Good Morning America. She has also been Editor-in-Chief of International Documentary Magazine; Art & Architecture Writer for the Los Angeles Daily News and for KCRW-FM, NPR's Los Angeles flagship station; and Associate Editor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Emmy Magazine.

Rico’s tv documentaries have aired in 70 million homes nationally and 140 million homes internationally. As a senior producer-writer for E! Entertainment Television, she helmed 18 episodes of the hit Emmy-nominated primetime series The E! True Hollywood Story, including two-hour programs on John Lennon, Jane Fonda, Natalie Wood, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, The Price Is Right, Dallas, and Married...With Children. Her additional broadcast credits include E!’s Royalty A-Z (documentary miniseries) and It's Good to Be... (celebrity lifestyles); A&E Biography; and The Style Network’s How Do I Look? (reality/makeover). Among Rico’s independent film credits are Two Rivers (cowriter), a PBS documentary about Native American reconciliation; Angels in the Dust (development writer), an award-winning documentary about a South African AIDs orphanage; and The Lake of Fire (segment producer), a theatrical documentary on the abortion debate in America. Forthcoming are Still Alive!/¡Seguimos Vivos! (cowriter), a profile of a Guatemalan theater collective that works with gang youths; Tales of the Waría (development writer), about three Indonesian transgender individuals who search for love; and Albízu and the American Century (development writer), a profile of the 20th-century independence leader Pedro Albízu Campós, considered the Malcolm X of Puerto Rico.

Rico has juried film and video festivals, curated and produced sold-out live literary readings, and taught journalism and bilingual language arts for colleges. Her many honors include two Prism Award nominations, as well as grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, the New Mexico Office of the State Historian, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Harwood Museum of Art, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and Hedgebrook: A Retreat for Women Writers. She is on the Board of Directors of the SAGE Institute for Environment, Creativity, & Consciousness, an educational nonprofit affiliated with the University of New Mexico-Taos.

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