Transcending three cultures by birth and circumstance (the Middle East, the Czech Republic and America) Dina Rabadi's essays, short stories and articles have appeared in over twenty periodicals including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and Fiction.  She has been awarded writing grants from the Vogelstein Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council and has completed a writing residency on the Oregon Coast at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.  She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writer’s Fiction Workshop, the Woodhull Institute of Ethical Leadership and Smith College.

Set in northern Montana and the Aleutian Islands, Dina’s novella Mary’s Wings, begun while she was living in Prague, is an allegory for the death of Catholicism and the emergence of humanism.  It is under review at a press and was a semi-finalist in the William Faulkner Creative Writing national competition.  This year she completed a collection of short stories titled Peter’s Moonlight Photography and Other Stories. Influenced by the Czech artist Mucha's series on women and seasons, the title story follows an aging moonlight photographer's quest for success and his models’ (all ordinary women) quest for an innate sense of beauty, power and creativity.  Like the women in Mucha’s series, each of the women represents a season—summer, fall, winter and spring and in representing seasons represents Everywoman.  Other stories range in theme and setting from the questionable success of the building of the atomic bomb to a motherless Spanish boy who becomes a perfume maker in the south of France.

Dina is now working on a novel and researching literary agents for representation.

A social activist as well as a writer, Dina's social concerns include human rights (especially the lives and treatment of women around the world), civic education, the environment and raising the standards of literacy and art in America. She founded The Global Alliance of Artists (www.globalallianceartists.org) to address some of these concerns. The emerging nonprofit will utilize artists and creativity inherent in communities to solve social challenges.  Global Alliance of Artists is currently in the final rounds for a million dollar grant.

Dina will soon be lecturing at Columbia College, Chicago on "Youth and Social Art."  She has also been invited to lecture at Pratt on the role of artists in society.