Diane Byington writes novels about women who will do whatever it takes to reach their dreams. She didn’t intend to concentrate on that topic and, in fact, didn’t even realize she’d done so until after her fourth book was published. So far, she’s written about:
A teenage runner who wants to run the Boston Marathon, but it’s 1969, and women aren’t allowed (Who She Is).
The director of a Tesla Museum in Colorado Springs discovers that Nikola Tesla invented a time travel machine, so she travels back to her past to try to undo her biggest regret. (If She Had Stayed)
After a terrible injury, an astronaut ends up in a perilous space simulation in Crestone, Colorado, in which she will be forced to decide which is more important: her dream or her life. (Mia’s Journey)
A French innkeeper in 1890 is afraid to leave her abusive husband, but an affair with a redheaded painter helps her to gather her courage and find a meaningful life (Louise and Vincent). This one won the CAL Award for historical fiction in 2024.
Diane moved to Denver from Florida in 1989 to teach at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. After retiring, she moved to the Boulder area and eventually began writing fiction. No more academic treatises for her!
She and her cat live in Longmont. Besides writing fiction, Diane works as a content editor at a small publishing company. She loves helping new authors polish their fiction to a bright shine.
When she isn’t sitting at her computer, she loves to dance, hike, read, and kayak. She’s looking forward to finishing her next novel, about a Boulder woman whose daughter is falsely accused of murder.