Diane Pershing, born and raised in Queens, New York, is a romance novelist, television writer and voice actress.She wrote episodes for the television series The Love Boat and What's Happening Now!!. Her work in romance novels includes Whispers and Lies, The Wish, and Cassie's Cowboy.She is perhaps most well known for providing the voice of the villainess Poison Ivy in Batman: The Animated Series and its subsequent spin-offs.