Diane Mapes
(She/Her)
As seen in:
NBC News,
Columns Magazine,
TODAY,
Medical Xpress,
Fred Hutch News Service,
BUST Magazine,
POZ,
Philadelphia Tribune,
Seattle Met,
Laboratory Equipment Magazine
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
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.