{"id":734,"date":"2020-11-03T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianeayres.com\/w\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2023-04-11T02:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T02:28:37","slug":"winery-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dianeayres.com\/w\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Ayres"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An updated version of her acclaimed first novel, Other Girls<\/em>, has been published by Untreed Reads<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 <\/strong>and is now available for the first time in ebook, paperback and hardcover.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Diane Ayres is a fiction writer, poet, illustrator, and editor.<\/strong> After graduating from Chatham College, she worked as a contributing editor at Pittsburgh<\/em> magazine, a PBS documentary researcher for WQED, and co-director of a Shakespeare exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art. She has taught at the Young Writers Conference at Penn and was featured in the Philadelphia Noir<\/em> short story collection. READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Diane Ayres is a fiction writer, poet, illustrator, and editor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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\u2019s director were nominated together for Pittsburgh’s Man of the Year Award in the Arts. READ MORE<\/a><\/p><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Recent News \u2013 Other Girls Goes Into 2nd Publishing<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cPainting a picture of the women\u2019s college \u2026 spunky, searching characters \u2026 the Sturm und Drang<\/em> involved in female friendships and love affairs \u2026 so many relationship configurations and emotional roller coasters \u2026 \u201c<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201c\u2026 a frothy good time, packed with sex, seduction, betrayal, revenge, and a healthy addiction to midnight poker. We\u2019ve heard this girls\u2019 school high jinks tale before, but it\u2019s rarely been this much good plain fun.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 OUT Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201cAyres is a talented writer\u2026I was struck time and time again by her intelligent humor and witty dialogue, and the puns that sparkle throughout the book \u2026 a skillfully woven web of dyke drama and \u2026 \u00a0college life\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Lambda Literary Review<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201cA wittily frank story of a freshwoman\u2019s coming of age.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201d Other Girls is a dazzling debut \u2026 a romantic, erotic, hilarious and at times, heartbreaking story about love among women \u2026 The book blithely morphs from dead-on satire to lesbian soap opera, from comedy to tragedy, from period piece to political statement \u2026 [it] also has humor in abundance. Ayres is as good with one-liners as she is with more sustained comic bits \u2026 rowdy, bawdy, utterly believable \u2026 thoroughly entertaining\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Philadelphia Gay News<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201cEngaging \u2026 amusing \u2026 a spirited \u2026 look at college life in the late 1970s\u2026 the characters and their stories hold together well.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Pittsburgh Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u201cAn impressive debut. Take this one to the beach.\u201d<\/h5>\n
\u2014 New York Jewish Week<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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