Donna Gordon is both a fiction writer and visual artist. She is the author of the novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, named by Kirkus Review among the top 100 Indie novels of 2023.
Her black and white photographic portrait series, "Born Enigmatic: My Sister's Schizophrenia," received the 2024 Jurors' Choice award from LensCulture, and was series a winner for both the 2024 and 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award. Her photographs can be seen in recent issues of Shots Magazine, Lenscratch, and The Hand. At various times she was a Stegner Fellow, PEN Discovery and Ploughshares Discovery.
While at MacDowell, she developed her portrait series, "Born Enigmatic," into a book.
Portrait by Margaret Lampert
