Donna’s creative writing journey began late in life, but has somehow miraculously produced her first novel, Somewhere Different Now. Donna is the mother of three grown children, all girls. A life-long learner and spiritual seeker, she enjoys meditation, deep conversations, various outdoor activities and playing the Native American-style flute. She was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming and spent many magnificent summers with her grandparents at a remote one-room cabin in the Medicine Bow National Forest. She lived the remainder of the year with her family in the Denver area, which is where the story she tells takes place. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from the University of Colorado. In those days, career paths open to women were few, and eventually, she realized how temperamentally unsuited she was to her chosen profession. She became an entrepreneur and owned a small business for many years. In 1983, she entered law school and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 with a law degree, a state bar card and a job. During the course of her career, she did a great deal of both legal and technical writing, none of which was the least bit helpful in writing a novel. She is retired and lives with her dog, Toby, in the beautiful Sierra foothills of northern California.