Diane Turnshek is an astronomer 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 running since 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 Payne, Triangulation: Extinction (2020) and with John Thompson, Triangulation: Habitats (2021).