Donna Cousins

Donna Cousins

Donna Cousins earned a master's degree from the Medill School of Journalism before becoming a fiction writer. She has worked in Europe and Asia, where her articles on local culture appeared in The Courier, The Singapore American newspaper, Orientations, and The Asia Magazine. In the United States, she was a founding editor of Career World magazine. She is the author of three novels, for which she won awards from Writer's Digest, ForeWord Review, ForeWord Magazine, and the Midwest Independent Publishers Association. Her most recent novel, The Story of Bones, was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. She lives with her husband in Chicago.

"Ideas for stories are everywhere: at the dinner table, in the doctor's waiting room, standing next to the potato bin in the grocery store. The challenge is to seize that glimmer and shape it into a sustained narrative with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It helps if the characters step forward and take over, as they often do. The potato bin must lead to a person. Or a dog."

- Donna Cousins