Dianna T. Benson
Thriller/Suspense Novelist
Bio
After majoring in communications and enjoying a successful career as a travel agent, Dianna left the travel industry and moved on to writing novels while earning her EMS degree.
An EMT and a Haz-Mat and FEMA Operative in Wake County EMS since 2005, she loves the adrenaline rush of responding to medical emergencies and helping people in need, often in their darkest time in life. Her suspense novels about adventurous characters thrown into tremendous circumstances provide readers with a similar kind of rush. She’s a lifelong sports enthusiast and athletic competitor in running, climbing, cycling and scuba diving and loves to travel and read. Married to her best friend, she met her husband, Leo, while they walked down the aisle at a wedding as a bridesmaid and groomsman when she was eleven and he was thirteen. Dianna lives in North Carolina with her husband and their three athletic children.
In 2009, Dianna was offered a publishing contract on four of her books in mainstream suspense, but soon after her husband was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. As God carried their young family of five through the surgeries and intense treatments, she turned to Christian fiction for comfort and support. When she started writing inspirational suspense, her heart found her true writing voice.
Dianna is represented by literary agent Barbara Scott of WordServe Literary Agency -- www.wordserveliterary.com
Dianna's husband is a software engineer; he also paints landscapes: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Leo-Benson/369907549687306
Dianna and Leo's oldest daughter is a full scholarship swimmer for Virginia Tech, and she'll compete at the 2012 US Olympic Swim Team Trials in Omaha. Their son is an ice hockey goalie for the Jr. Hurricanes. Their youngest daughter plays on a challenge travel soccer team.
"Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint." - Isaiah 40:31
Dianna's personal quote - "The grass isn't greener on the other side, it's just different."
Dianna snuba diving with her husband and their three children.
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What now seems like two hundred years ago, Dianna competed at the National level in tennis. She won three State Championship titles and was awarded the Dr. Pepper MVP. She also enjoyed horseback riding, competing in three-day eventing (stadium jumping, cross-country and dressage) as well as various equestrian shows.
Enjoying both climbing and skiing, to date Dianna has reached thirty-one summits of Colorado's 54 Fourteeners (peaks over 14,000 feet in elevation) and she loves to hike all around North Carolina. Having more of a love for speed than form in skiing, she races downhill as fast as possible.
Dianna and her husband on a 14er summit
A certified scuba diver since high school, Dianna and her husband dive
worldwide.
Dianna scuba diving with stingrays in Cayman