Lila Quintero Weaver is the author-illustrator of the graphic memoir Darkroom: A Memoir in Black & White (The University of Alabama Press, 2012). She is also the co-translator with Karina Vázquez of its Spanish edition, Cuarto oscuro: Recuerdos en blanco y negro.

In 2018, Lila published a novel for young readers, My Year in the Middle (Candlewick Press).

Her contributions appear in two anthologies: 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).

Since its publication, Darkroom has been widely adopted as a classroom text in universities and high schools across the United States. It is featured in several works of scholarship, including Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement: Reframing History in Comics, by Jorge J. Santos Jr (The University of Texas Press, 2019) and Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir & Nonfiction, by Randy Duncan, Michael Ray Taylor and David Stoddard (Routledge, 2016).

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

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lila immigrated to the United States with her family in 1961, at age five. She now lives in Alabama with her husband.