Lila Quintero Weaver was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but grew up in Alabama. She tells the story of her family’s immigration in Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (The University of Alabama Press, 2012). Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro is the Spanish edition. In July 2018, Candlewick Press released Lila’s first children’s book, My Year in the Middle. Lila and her husband Paul have three grown children.
Dear readers, I’d love to hear from you! Please send comments, questions, or event inquiries to me at lilaweaver@gmail.com.
My social-media hangouts are Twitter: @LilaQWeaver and Instagram.
Press Mentions
Interviews
Youth librarian Edith Campbell’s blog, CrazyQuiltEdi.
Reviews for My Year in the Middle
Reviews for Darkroom
Miscellaneous
Nerdy Book Club, a guest post on the children’s classic, The Hundred Dresses
The Memoir Project, a guest post on writing memoirs and how to recover details seemingly lost to memory
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