DM Denton is a native of Western New York. She finds her voice in poetry and prose, in silence and retreat, in truth and imagination. Through observation and study, inspired by music, art, nature and the contradictions of the creative spirit, she loves to wander into the past to discover stories of interest and meaning for the present, writing from her love of language and the belief that what is left unsaid is the most affecting of all. Her fourth novel, The Dove Upon Her Branch, A Novel Portrait of Christina Rossetti, was published July 24, 2023. Her third novel, Without the Veil Between, Anne Brontë: A Fine and Subtle Spirit, is a portrait of the youngest Brontë sister. Her first two novels, A House Near Luccoli and its sequel To A Strange Somewhere Fled focus on Baroque music and its makers and are set in late 17th century Genoa and England respectively. She has also published 3 Kindle short stories and an illustrated flower journal. Her next novel, just begun, will focus on the late 19th Century, early 20th Century Shropshire novelist and poet Mary Webb, best known for her novel Precious Bane. DM Denton's educational journey took her to a dream-fulfilling semester at Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, England, and she stayed in the UK for sixteen years—in a yellow-stoned village with thatched cottages, duck pond, and twelfth century church and abbey turned Jacobean manor house. She lived, for better or worse, right off the pages of Fielding, the Brontës, Austin, Hardy, DH Lawrence, and even Dickens, surrounded by the beautiful hills, woods and fields of the Oxfordshire countryside, and all kinds of colorful characters. This truly turned out to be a life-changing experience that resonates in her personal and professional endeavors to this day. She currently lives with a multitude of cats in a cozy log cabin in Western New York State. DM Denton also is an artist and has done the illustrations for the covers of her own novels and others, as well as interior illustrations.