Dana Diehl's stories are pure obsession-fuelled magic, each one an engine of possibility powered by Diehl's intense curiosity, her love of knowledge, her limitless imagination. Our Dreams Might Align is a map disguised as a book of stories, come with humor and heart to lead us back to somewhere like the best days of childhood, a world almost unbearably alive with mystery and wonder.

-- Matt Bell, author of Scrapper

Words pile on in fragile rhythms. Sentences are constructed out of negative space. The unsaid lingers. Fragments dominate. Each story exists only for a short time, breaking off suddenly. An atmosphere of absence seeps into each one, the fear of being left behind.

-- Augusto Corvalan, The Masters Review

Dana Diehl is a scientist. Her stories run the gamut of scientific inquiry: biology, ecology, zoology, anatomy, astronomy and geology all make cameos in Our Dreams Might Align. Whether through worms or wormholes, Diehl's characters are experimenting, as is she. ... [But often] what starts with a wry wink ends with a gut punch. Diehl's stories may roam the stars and delve into the microcosms all around us, but they always land in the human heart.

-- Rachel Richardson, Necessary Fiction

In her remarkable stories, Dana Diehl releases a new language for sadness and wonder. As I read, a robin flew through my temporal lobe. Each tale left me wanting another. In a world in which our existence is threatened, she plays Scheherazade, bringing us through dark nights.

-- Catherine Zobal Dent, author of Unfinished Stories of Girls

Diehl's stories take us to a variety of worlds and situations... linked together in a delicate way.

-- Eshani Surya, Heavy Feather Review

Diehl's breathtaking stories explore both the natural world and the human heart with a scientist's passionate inquiry and a poet's exquisite precision. Our Dreams Might Align is a gorgeous début collection that illuminates deep oceans and deep space, the amorous bite of a cobra rattler, and our profound desire to love and be loved.

-- Tara Ison, author of Ball

In Dana Diehl's début collection, a dazzling panoply of characters takes risks and makes choices in a more-than-humanly scaled universe. With poetic exactitude and exceptional scientific vision, Diehl brilliantly evokes geologic time, the migration of whales, space exploration, post-prison life, baby Komodo dragons, snakes and the subtle laws of physics, arranging these, helix-like, around a human instinct for hope, illumined, and sometimes faulted, by love.

-- Melissa Pritchard, author of A Solemn Pleasure