Dianne Aprile

DIANNE APRILE is a journalist and creative nonfiction writer who spent more than twenty years as a columnist at the Louisville Courier-Journal. She is the author of The Abbey of Gethsemani: Place of Peace and Paradox.

Aprile was part of the Courier-Journal team that won a staff Pulitzer Prize. She holds an MFA from Spalding University’s School of Creative and Professional Writing, where she teaches creative nonfiction on the MFA faculty. She is a recipient of a Kentucky Arts Council fellowship, grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a Hedgebrook Women Writers Residency.

When she’s not writing, Aprile is one of the few women ever granted access to the enclosure of a men’s Trappist monastery, a privilege first earned while researching The Abbey of Gethsemani: Place of Peace and Paradox.

Dianne lives in Issaquah, Washington.

Dianne Aprile’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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