Diane Revell

Diane Revell (President 2023 - 2024, and Secretary of HWG from 2017 - 2021) Diane was well educated in California and Washington with a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and a master’s degree from Seattle University in Software Engineering. She worked for 35 years in aerospace software development and technical management before retiring and moving from Washington State with her husband to Hawi, Hawaii. She did technical writing as part of her employment and as a member of the Society of Women Engineers, but since moving to Hawi has mainly written poems and very short stories. Her writings are often paired with photos or drawing.  She has had some items published as single contributions in newspapers but is considering compiling her current poems into a book. Diane also serves as Director, Kohala Area 2023 – and on.

Diane Revell has written a few poems published in newspapers; one in a Seattle Times of January 2000 that won her (among 99 others) tickets to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and the rest  in the June 2017 and more recent Kohala Mountain News issues. She also has had a poem in each of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions of Latitudes and a short nonfiction story in the 5th edition of Latitudes.