About Me

Donna Conrad is a bestselling, award-winning author, journalist, activist, and teacher. Her core values revolve around individual empowerment, a sustaining ideal running through the books she writes. Her writing interests include articles for fine art periodicals, memoir/ narrative non-fiction, and historical, flash, and paranormal fiction. She is a regular presenter at writers’ conferences. Donna’s life is as varied as her writing. She embraces change as an exciting adventure. She has studied writing with Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Jack Whyte.

The Last Magdalene, book one of the four-book Magdalene Chronicles, has won five national awards and is noted as a “must-read” by Publishers Weekly and The St. Louis Review. As a historical fiction author, Donna writes about marginalized women, bringing their lives and stories to a modern audience. Her first published book, House of the Moon: Surviving the Sixties, is a memoir that explores life in the tumultuous decade that changed the world.