Katherine Yancey De Lorraine ’68, M.A. ’79 (English), is the author of Miss Lila’s Place, a Southern gothic mystery novel set in Farmville and published by Mystic Publishing. In addition to its primary plotline—outwitting a serial killer—the book explores the racial conflict in Prince Edward and touches on Civil War history.
De Lorraine has taught English and creative writing in secondary schools and at Roanoke College. The recipient of four fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, De Lorraine shared that “I am the author of a prize-winning chapbook, Someone You Should Know, [and] a multigenre book, Human Bridges.”
Her Longwood undergraduate degree is in English and speech. She also earned an MFA from Goddard College.
