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Diana Renn
Instructor
About Diana
Diana Renn’s middle grade mystery, TROUBLE AT TURTLE POND (Fitzroy Books / Regal House) was long listed for the Massachusetts Book Award and named a Nature Generation / Green Earth Book Awards Honor Book in 2023. The sequel, THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY, releases in August 2024. Diana is also the author of three young adult mysteries published by Viking / Penguin Random House (TOKYO HEIST, LATITUDE ZERO and BLUE VOYAGE), and a collaboratively written, serialized thriller for adults (FALSE IDOLS) published by Realm / Adaptive Books. She writes creative nonfiction as well; her essays have appeared in Pangyrus, WBUR's Cognoscenti, Flyway Journal of Writing and Environment, Publisher's Weekly, The Huffington Post, The Writer, Writer's Digest, and elsewhere. She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for a collection of essays she is writing about neighborhood naturalists and community science. Diana enjoys teaching writers of all ages and is an instructor in Grub Street’s Young Adult Writers Program (YAWP). Visit her online at www.dianarennbooks.com.