Donna Minkowitz

Donna Minkowitz‘s novel Donnaville was recently published by Indolent Books. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore said of it, “Tender and grotesque… Donnaville shocks the senses to open the gates between myth and belonging… Donnaville frees the soul from its burdens.” Minkowitz is also the author of the memoirs Ferocious Romance, which won a Lambda Literary Award, and Growing Up Golem, which was a finalist for a Lammy and for the Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award. She is a former columnist for the Village Voice, and her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Salon, Slate, and The Advocate. Minkowitz is the recipient of a GLAAD Media Award, the Exceptional Merit Media Award, an NLGJA Award for Outstanding Journalism, and an Art Omi residency fellowship.