NOMINATIONS:
The Silenced (Delacorte Press), Young Adult Novel, 2025
BIO: Diana Rodriguez Wallach is a multi-published author of young adult novels. Her latest, THE SILENCED tackles the Troubled Teen Industry and is a finalist for the 2026 International Thriller Awards for Best YA Thriller and the 2026 Bram Stoker Awards for Best YA Horror. In October 2023, she released HATCHET GIRLS, a modern twist on the legend of Lizzie Borden, and in 2021, she published SMALL TOWN MONSTERS, inspired by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (all Penguin Random House/Delacorte). Additionally, Diana has penned a trilogy of YA Latina contemporary novels, a trilogy of YA spy thrillers, and her essays and short stories have appeared in several anthologies. For the past four years, she has been on faculty as a writing instructor for the Highlights Foundation, and prior to that she taught Creative Writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area with her husband, two children, and two cats.
