Diane Ayres is a fiction writer, poet, illustrator, and editor.
An alumna of Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Ayres graduated with English honors and the Beatrice Lewis Memorial Book Award for creative writing. She became a contributing editor at Pittsburgh magazine, and then was also offered the unique opportunity to become the assistant project director for a touring exhibition of priceless Elizabethan manuscripts from the Folger Shakespeare Library, which was installed at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1980. The city-wide event was such a success that she and the project’s director were nominated together for Pittsburgh’s Man of the Year Award in the Arts. READ MORE
Recent News – Other Girls Goes Into 2nd Publishing
“Painting a picture of the women’s college … spunky, searching characters … the Sturm und Drang involved in female friendships and love affairs … so many relationship configurations and emotional roller coasters … “
— Publishers Weekly
“… a frothy good time, packed with sex, seduction, betrayal, revenge, and a healthy addiction to midnight poker. We’ve heard this girls’ school high jinks tale before, but it’s rarely been this much good plain fun.”
— OUT Magazine
“Ayres is a talented writer…I was struck time and time again by her intelligent humor and witty dialogue, and the puns that sparkle throughout the book … a skillfully woven web of dyke drama and … college life”
— Lambda Literary Review
“A wittily frank story of a freshwoman’s coming of age.”
— Philadelphia Inquirer
” Other Girls is a dazzling debut … a romantic, erotic, hilarious and at times, heartbreaking story about love among women … The book blithely morphs from dead-on satire to lesbian soap opera, from comedy to tragedy, from period piece to political statement … [it] also has humor in abundance. Ayres is as good with one-liners as she is with more sustained comic bits … rowdy, bawdy, utterly believable … thoroughly entertaining”
— Philadelphia Gay News
“Engaging … amusing … a spirited … look at college life in the late 1970s… the characters and their stories hold together well.”
— Pittsburgh Magazine
“An impressive debut. Take this one to the beach.”
— New York Jewish Week
