Dianne Liuzzi Hagan

Dianne Liuzzi Hagan is an award-winning author known for her "prophetic and poetic" storytelling, She masterfully blends multicultural mystery, folklore, and gothic thriller with deeply personal explorations of race equality in America.

As the creator of the acclaimed A Cadence Mystery series, Hagan has earned a reputation for crafting "riveting" mysteries that are "incredibly powerful, memorable, and unsettling." She tackles systemic racism and historical trauma through the lens of Indigenous folklore and interracial dynamics. The series has been the recipient of six Literary Titan Book Awards and six American Fiction Awards finalist honors. The books in A Cadence Mystery are celebrated for their rich character depth and fast-moving, multilayered suspense. Literary Titan called them "A dark, sinewy mystery with a conscience."

Hagan’s storytelling is rooted in her own lived experience. Her powerful memoirs, American Dreaming: A Memoir of Interracial Love, Estrangement, and Race Equality and Another Day in Post-Racial America: To the Mothers of the Black Lives Matter Movement, With Love, offer an "own voices" perspective on interracial love, family estrangement, and the enduring myth of a post-racial society. By contrasting her family’s history in the cities of Albany and Syracuse, New York, with the history of systemic racism and the current events that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement, she provides a roadmap for healing the racial divide. Both books have been recognized with literary awards honors.

Whether writing chilling supernatural thrillers or provocative creative nonfiction, Dianne Liuzzi Hagan remains committed to uncovering "ugly truths" and celebrating the resilience of the human spirit. She lives and writes in the Piedmont-Triad area of North Carolina, but she remains sentimental about the natural beauty, rich history, and the unique intersection of cultural diversity in Central New York.