Newly settled in El Paso, TX, Dianne Lindstrom reads voraciously. Her two cats love to read with her – well, they nap and bathe while she turns the pages. She and her husband are lucky to be allowed to live with these two feline companions.

 

Growing up in New Mexico, 90 miles from Roswell, and having Jack Williamson as a family friend, Dianne couldn't do anything other than read science fiction. Jack's writing and teaching skills, along with the adoration of millions of fans throughout the world, influenced her even as a small child.

 

Dianne has had a portfolio career – many different jobs, industries, skills. After four years in the US Navy operating main-frame computers, she earned her electrical engineering degree. Since then, she's worked at nuclear power plant operations; transmission design; facility design, maintenance, and operations; construction; contract law (paralegal); strategic sourcing; researching; writing; executive coaching; editing; forum moderating; slush-pile reading; and ... writing.

 

Dianne spent over twenty years doing many kinds of technical writing and editing, along with presentations. As a school child, she won three writing contests. In high school, she wrote the poem that was used at the New Mexico Girls' State inauguration.

 

More recently, Dianne has been published in magazines (non-fiction) and won second place in a short story contest at Electric Dragon Cafe. It was a horror story told as a “list” flash.

 

Continuing work on her first novel, Dianne is also writing flash fiction and short stories.