Lila Quintero Weaver is the author-illustrator of the graphic memoir Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (The University of Alabama Press, 2012), and the co-translator with Karina Vázquez of its Spanish edition, Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro. In 2018, she published a novel for young readers, My Year in the Middle (Candlewick Press). She is a contributor to Old Enough: Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging (NewSouth Books, 2024) and Tales from La Vida: A Latinx Comics Anthology (The Ohio State University Press, 2018).

Lila’s original drawings from Darkroom have been exhibited at numerous venues, including Whitman College, the Levine Museum of the New South, the Rosa Parks Museum, and at CentroCentro, the exhibition space of Palacio de Cibeles, in Madrid, Spain.

Lila was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She immigrated to the United States with her family in 1961, at age five. Currently, she lives in Northport, Alabama, with her husband. They have three grown children.