Elizabeth Donald is a writer fond of things that go chomp in the night. She is a three-time winner of the Darrell Award for speculative fiction and a finalist for the Prism and Imadjinn awards. She is the author of the Blackfire dark urban fantasy series, Nocturne vampire mystery series and several other novels, novellas and stories in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. More recently, she was awarded the Mimi Zanger Award for literary fiction and a finalist for the Imaginarium screenplay competition.
She is the founder and coordinator of the Literary Underworld , an author and small-press cooperative that works to promote small-press genre fiction at conventions and online. In addition, she runs an active writers’ group in her hometown.
After more than 20 years as an award-winning news reporter, Elizabeth became a full-time writer in 2018 while in grad school. She continues to work as a freelance journalist and essayist, a nature and art photographer, editor and writing coach. For more on Elizabeth’s nonfiction work, see her website at DonaldMedia.com and her photography portfolio.
Elizabeth recently completed a masters degree in media studies and MFA in creative writing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and teaches newswriting and English composition to undergraduates at St. Louis area colleges.
She continues to serve as the president of the St. Louis Society of Professional Journalists and on the national ethics board for that organization. She is also a member of the Authors Guild, Editorial Freelancers Association, AEJMC, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Freelancers Union, St. Louis Writers Guild, Sigma Tau Delta and more writing and trade organizations than is healthy.
She lives with her family in a haunted house in Edwardsville, Illinois. In her spare time, she has no spare time.
