An updated version of her acclaimed first novel, Other Girls, has been published by Untreed Reads and is now available for the first time in ebook, paperback and hardcover.

Diane Ayres is a fiction writer, poet, illustrator, and editor. After graduating from Chatham College, she worked as a contributing editor at Pittsburgh 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 short story collection. READ MORE

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