Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Diane McKinney-Whetstone is an American author. Diane is based in Philadelphia, and is constantly mining the city for her material. She sees the blocks and neighbourhoods of the City of Brotherly Love to be characters in her stories. The people in her stories will falter, make mistakes, fall, fail, ascend to new heights and better themselves. She has received the American Library Association Black Caucus Literary Award for Fiction twice, and has also received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant. Diane lives with her husband, Greg, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.