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LONG AUTHOR BIO

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.

SHORT AUTHOR BIO

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. She is published in Analog Magazine of Science Fiction and Fact and edited Parsec’s Triangulation anthology multiple times.

LONG ASTRONOMY BIO

Diane Turnshek is a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. She runs the Astronomy Public Lecture Series at Allegheny Observatory. Her love of both astronomy and science fiction led her to crew the Mars Desert Research Station (featured in the documentary “Above and Below”), where she turned her attention to dark sky advocacy and earned an International Dark Sky Association’s Defender Award. She has given over one hundred light pollution talks including one for TEDxPittsburgh, curated a series of space art galleries, and founded the Pennsylvania Chapter of the International Dark-Sky Association. In 2019, she edited the genre anthology Triangulation: Dark Skies with twenty-one starry night short stories. She has been interviewed by the New York Times, PBSNewsHour, NPR Morning Edition, Canada One Radio, Chinese Global Television Network and 50 more news outlets. She hosted a Dark Skies Conference at CMU and is co-running the 9th International Artificial Light at Night Conference in Calgary, Canada in August of 2023. Her research focuses on measuring the light of cities with drones, aircraft, satellites and astronauts aboard the ISS.

SHORT ASTRONOMY BIO

Diane Turnshek is a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh. Her light pollution research focuses on measuring the light of cities with drones, aircraft, satellites and astronauts aboard the ISS.

Diane’s Carnegie Mellon faculty page

Diane’s University of Pittsburgh faculty page