Pushcart Prize-nominee Donna Glee Williams was born in Mexico, the daughter of a Kentucky farm-girl and a Texas Aggie large-animal veterinarian. She graduated from Tulane University and Charity Hospital School of Nursing, then earned an MFA and PhD from Louisiana State University. The imagined pre-industrial societies of her novels The Braided Path, Dreamers, and The Night Field owe a lot to her years of wayfaring on four continents; she has deep roots in many soils.
Her most recent novel, the ecofable The Night Field (kindled by her 2008 Fulbright Senior Environmental Leadership Fellowship researching the human cost of pesticide use)was honored with the 2024 Manly Wade Wellman Award, as well as inspiring a suite of music, “Songs for The Night Field,” by Lynn Morgan Rosser. (Available through all streaming platforms and at https://lynnmorganrosser.com/music.)

Her short fiction has received nomination for the Pushcart Prize, finalist status multiple times in Writers of the Future, Honorable Mention in Gardner Dozois’s Best Science Fiction of the Year anthology, and performance onstage in Hollywood as a finalist in SCI Fest LA. Her poetry has appeared in The Bellingham Review, The New Orleans Review, The New Laurel Review, The New Delta Review, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Maple Leaf Rag, Writing from the Inside, The Beltane Papers, Mesechabe, The Fly, The Science Fiction Association’s Star*Line, and Friends Journal. In the past, she’s worked as turnabout crew on a schooner, librarian, environmental activist, registered nurse, educator, and creative coach. These days she mostly walks in the woods, writes, and leads dream-groups in her little cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains, forever drunk on the isoprene exhalations of the trees.