Author bios

Short version

Dianna Gunn is a fantasy and horror author known for her Moonshadow Rising Duology (completed in 2024) and Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror (released in 2025). You can find out more about her books at authordiannagunn.com. She is also the founder of Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing support for fiction writers.

Medium length

Dianna Gunn is a freelance writer by day and a fantasy author by night. Her dark fantasy novel, Moonshadow's Guardian, was released in November 2018 and followed with Moonshadow's Champion in 2024, completing the Moonshadow Rising Duology.

Gunn's shorter fiction has appeared in Broken Olive Branches, Tiny Frontiers, Tiny Dungeons, and the award-winning Nothing Without Us, Too. She also published many of her own flash fiction pieces in Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder, as well as publishing others' stories in Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror. You can learn more about both her short and long fiction at authordiannagunn.com.

Gunn is also the founder of Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing accessible community and educational support for fiction writers.

Long version

Dianna Gunn has been passionate about words since she first learned to speak. She started working as a freelance blogger in 2011 as a way to pay the bills while she worked on her fiction. Her first dark fantasy novel, Moonshadow's Guardian, was released in November 2018. Gunn followed this with Moonshadow's Champion in 2024, completing the Moonshadow Rising Duology.

Gunn expanded her work in 2024 with murder commissions, custom death scenes written for folks in her community. She has since written over 40 murders and compiled the best of them in Killer Debt: An Anthology of Murder, released in 2025. She further expanded her work in 2025 by editing and releasing Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror. You can learn more about these works, and Gunn's other upcoming fiction, at authordiannagunn.com.

Along with her own writing career, Gunn has always been committed to helping other fiction writers. She founded Weeknight Writers, a social enterprise dedicated to providing accessible community and educational support for fiction writers, with this goal in mind. She has since hosted over a dozen virtual conferences, hundreds of Bluesky chats, and numerous other virtual events for writers.