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Diane Mapes

(She/Her)
  • Staff Writer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle
As seen in: NBC News, Columns Magazine, TODAY, Medical Xpress, BUST Magazine, Fred Hutch News Service, POZ, Philadelphia Tribune, Laboratory Equipment Magazine, Seattle Met and
Covers:  public health | cancer research | pop health | humor | cancer experience
Everything was going great until this whole breast cancer thing. Catch me over at the blue 🦋 @doublewhammied
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Diane Mapes’s Biography

Hello! I’m Diane Mapes, a longtime Seattle writer. I grew up on a strawberry farm in rural northwest Washington and studied journalism at WWU and creative writing at the UW, although I probably didn’t study either hard enough.

Over the years, I’ve published short stories, humor columns, travel essays, 1,000+ news stories, a funny dating manual, half a 50 Shades parody about zombies and much more. I’ve even won some writing awards!

Currently, I write about cancer research and the cancer patient experience for Fred Hutch. I’m also looking for a forever home for #IMPATIENT, a comic heist novel. And working on something a little darker involving Seattle's early history.

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