Author: Tori Whitaker

Tori Whitaker connects women across generations through American fiction about family memory, concealed choices, and changing social expectations. Raised in the Midwest and based in Atlanta, she studied at Indiana University and participated in the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish, her debut novel, moves between the mid-twentieth century and the present. The story centres on a family disclosure that compels three generations of women to reconsider what they believed about one another. Whitaker uses alternating viewpoints to place private decisions beside the customs and constraints of their respective periods. The novel’s book-club materials emphasize discussion of family, forgiveness, ambition, and the distance between intention and consequence. Whitaker later published A Matter of Happiness, another work built around an intergenerational connection and a rediscovered family object. Millicent Glenn’s Last Wish established the dual-timeline approach and interest in women’s untold histories that continue across her fiction, while keeping emotional discovery anchored in the particular dynamics of one family.