| Birth Date: | May 20, 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| Death Place: | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation: | poet |
(Jennivien) Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet.[1] She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award.[2]
Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She was educated at the University of Ottawa, the city she made her home for the remainder of her life.[3]
Brebner's first three collections of poetry were published by Hendrika Ruger on Netherlandic Press.[4] Her posthumous collection, The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005.[5] The Diana Brebner Prize is awarded annually by Arc magazine.[6] [7]
Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for Radiant Life Forms, the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for The Golden Lotus, the Archibald Lampman Award in 1997 for Flora & Fauna.