Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Diane McKinney-Whetstone is the author of eight novels. The latest—Lazaretto—will be published April 12, 2016, as her first novel, the critically-acclaimed Tumbling celebrates twenty years. She mines the city of Philadelphia for her material. The blocks and neighborhoods themselves become characters as she tells stories of everyday people existing in families and communities; characters faltering, yielding to their desires, falling, fighting, climbing, reaching for their better selves.

Twice awarded the American Library Association Black Caucus Literary Award for Fiction, she is also a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. She is a past-lecturer in the writing program at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband Greg in Philadelphia.

Learn more at Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s official website.