Diane Furtney

After her Tulsa upbringing, and with a psychology degree from Vassar College, Diane Furtney worked a year in Israel (1967), then took an assortment of jobs, sometimes in clinical psychology, in several U.S. cities. Besides nonfiction ghostwriting, she has authored two prize-winning poetry chapbooks (DESTINATION ROOMS and IT WAS A GAME) and two comic mystery novels (MURDER AT THE MLA and MURDER IN THE NEW AGE, pseudonym D.J.H. Jones). Her poems and translations (French, Japanese) are in numerous journals in the U.S. and England, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry International, The Kenyon Review, The Adirondack Review, and Stand. A full-length collection of science-inspired poems, SCIENCE AND, was published in 2014 by FutureCycle Press. A second collection, THE BLUE MAN: POEMS OF THE ORDINARY, is in press with FutureCycle for Spring 2017. "Sailing to Mytilene," from MYTILENE, a collection now circulating, was nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. See her Author Profile on Amazon for details, including a statement of aesthetics.