Author

Diane Turnshek is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She has been on the board of directors for both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Parsec, Pittsburgh’s premier science fiction organization. For nine years, she mentored graduate students at Seton Hill’s MFA Writing Popular Fiction program. She is the founder of Write or Die, a critique group started in 1996, Alpha, a residency teen writing workshop held since 2002, and the Triangulation anthology series, editing the first one in 2003. With Chloe Nightingale, she edited Triangulation: Dark Skies (2019), with Isaac E. Payne Triangulation: Extinction (2020) and with John Thompson and Herb Kauderer Triangulation: Habitats (2021). Organizing over 300 author signings, coordinating writing workshops and a lecture series, working on the programming committee for both local and world science fiction conventions and running SFWA’s 2006 Nebula Awards Weekend makes her a facilitator of genre writing as well as an author and editor.

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Founder of:

2014 CMU/Parsec Partners in Speculative Fiction Lecture Series and writing workshops

2003 Parsec Ink, Triangulation Anthology Series

2002 Alpha, the SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers

1996 Write or Die (WorD) writing and critique group

Fiction

Anthology Series:

• Triangulation by Parsec Ink publishing
  
  • Triangulation 2003: A Confluence of Speculative Fiction (2003)
    
  • Triangulation: Dark Skies (2019) with Chloe Nightingale
    
  • Triangulation: Extinction (2020) with Isaac E. Payne
    
  • Triangulation: Habitats (2021) with John Thompson

Short Fiction

• Dancing in the Light (Novelette)
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact (December 1999)
  
• Extreme Geas
  Six From Parsec: the Parsec Fantasy Anthology, edited by James J. Walton, A Mean-Spirited Scoundrel Publishing (January 1, 2000)
  
• Hullabaloo 
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  (July-August 2000)
  Reprinted in Drabblecast 276 (March 19, 2013)
  
• The Queen of Self-Help 
  Challenging Destiny Number 11
  (December 2000)
  Reprinted in the Hazard Yet Forward anthology edited by Natalie Duvall, Matt Duvall and Deanna Lepsch, Evergreen Syndicate (December 5, 2012)
  
• Vegan
  Triangulation: Parch anthology,
  Parsec Ink (2014)
  
• First Contact: Moms Rule
  Analog Science Fiction and Fact: Probability Zero (April 2014)

Poems

• Asteroid Zoup
  Liquid Imagination
  (May 2013)
  
• Alien Pygmalion
  Rough Beasts anthology
  Lone Wolf Publications
  (August 2001)
  

Non Fiction

• Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction contributed essay “Teaching Young Writers” Headline Books, Inc. (2011)
  
• Gliding into Writing
  Abyss & Apex
  1st Quarter (2007)
  
• Etymology of WorD in Knee Deep in Little Devils, A Write or Die Anthology edited by Karen Yun-Lutz, WORD Publishing (2018)
  
• 101 Ways to Show Your Characters are In Love by Diane Turnshek and members of the Young Writers: Speculative Fiction Forum, Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop edited by Kathleen Dalton-Woodbury.

Interviews

• CMU News: Science Fiction During a Science-Fictional Moment
  by Jason Maderer, July 29, 2020

• The Horror Tree Presents: An Interview with Diane Turnshek about Parsec Ink’s, Triangulation: Dark Skies anthology with Angelique Fawns, July 6, 2020
  
• A Story with a Negative Word Count: Art Existentialism Chat with Diane Turnshek
  with Ashley Andrykovitch and Juliet Pusateri, April 18, 2014
  
• Mind Meld Science Fictional Technologies that Are Just Around the Corner with Andrea Johnson, December 18, 2013
  
• Mind Meld Great SFF Stories by Women with JP Frantz, July 24, 2013
  
• A Few Words with Diane Turnshek
  OG’s Speculative Fiction
  May 2007 · Print Issue #6
  ISFDB
  
• ALAN & JEREMY VS SCIENCE FICTION
  Episode 18: Ian McDonald’s “The Catherine Wheel” with Diane Turnshek