A native of Michigan, Diane Petryk is an award-winning journalist who has worked on newspapers of all sizes in eight states and abroad. She was a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press; sub-editor on The Dominion in Wellington, New Zealand; assistant city editor of The Savannah Morning News; and news editor of the The Herald in Sanford, Florida. She also edited a weekly in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and reported for newspapers from the Canadian border to Central Florida.
She has been honored for investigative reporting by the New York Associated Press, the New York Newspaper Publisher’s Association, the North Carolina Press Association, the Georgia Associated Press and was part of the Plattsburgh (N.Y.) Press Republican team honored for its localized coverage of the 9-11 attack.
She attended Michigan State University, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism.
“Invasion of the Child Snatchers,” her probe of child protective services nationwide, is published in Abuse Your Illusions, A Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies. She is also published in the Disinformation Company anthologies Everything You Know is Wrong; The Book of Lists; and Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong.
Walter Hudson and the Mackinac Island Affair is her first work of fiction.
