Susanna Donato

Susanna Donato is a third-generation Colorado native who decided at age 6 that she’d be a writer or a farm girl when she grew up, until she learned that she prefers a keyboard to a shovel. Today she lives in Denver, where she writes nonfiction, fiction, and hybrid forms, often about music, art, and the urban West. Since attending Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City and University of Colorado-Denver, she has studied at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and even pretended to be a doctor at CU’s Mini Med School. Her work has appeared in Okey-Panky, Blue Earth Review, Hippocampus, Midlife Mixtape, and Columbia Review.