Bio:Diane Turnshek

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Diane Turnshek is an astronomer (MS from U of AZ) and a science fiction author whose short fiction has been published in Analog Magazine and elsewhere. She has done K-12 astronomy outreach through the University of Pittsburgh, taught astronomy at Carlow University, St. Vincent College, the Community College of Allegheny County and Chatham University, and worked as a planetarium operator at the Carnegie Science Center's Buhl Planetarium. She hosts a monthly, public lecture series on astronomy at Allegheny Observatory. She's a special faculty member in the Physics Department at Carnegie Mellon University and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at teaching astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh.

From 2002 to 2011, Diane mentored science fiction, fantasy and horror graduate students in the MFA Program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University. She founded the largest genre writing group in Pittsburgh (Write or Die) and Alpha, the SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers (a twelve-day residency workshop). Diane started a local, yearly series of SF anthologies and edited the first book Triangulation 2003, as well as 2019, 2020 and 2021. From 2004 to July 2007, she served on the BoD as Eastern Regional Director for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA), a professional organization of ~2000 writers. She’s helped organize science fiction conferences on local and international levels including running the 2006 SFWA Nebula Awards in NYC.

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