Diane Severson is a lyric soprano specialized in Early Music, specifically Baroque and medieval music and Lieder/Art Song. She is an enthusiastic teacher of singing (taking her cues from her mentor the late Cornelius Reid and his long-time student and mentor in her own right Carol Baggott-Forte).

Diane has been involved in the Speculative Poetry Scene (yes, it’s a thing) since 2010. She has narrated for the StarShipSofa Podcast Magazine since Tony C. Smith started running fiction and found out that she reads aloud to her husband. She quickly became his go-to-girl when he wanted poetry read. As a result of that affinity with poetry, and because she does her best work when she has a Cause (a budding superheroine?), she decided to take up as Science Fiction Poetry’s Spokesperson. She produced the sporadic podcast, which ran as part of StarShipSofa, called Poetry Planet and is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) and currently serves as Membership Chair, Volunteer Wrangler and Communications Coordinator. She has reviewed genre poetry for Amazing Stories Magazine and the SFPA’s Star*Line magazine and edited an issue of the SFPA’s online journal, Eye to the Telescope  on the theme of Music. She continues to narrate stories for StarShipSofa and other podcasts (notably EscapePod, PodCastle and Tales to Terrify) and audio book narrations.

The best place to find her is on the web because she tends to pick up and move to another country at the drop of a hat, having lived in Germany, the UK, and France in the past 12 years. She and her small family, a “rocket scientist” and a young multi-linguist, currently reside in a Home County in England.