Donna Brown

Donna Brown is an award-winning short story writer who lives near Manchester in the UK. She most recently won the Cheshire Prize for Literature with a short story entitled ‘Her Face is Mine’, which was inspired by childhood visits to the North Wales coast. This was published by the University of Chester Press in November 2025 in their Kaleidoscope anthology.

She also won the Winchester Writers’ Festival Short Story Prize in 2018 and was one of the ten winners of the Fish Short Story Prize in 2019. Since then, one of her short stories has made into a podcast with the Casket of Fictional Delights and her work has been published online and in several anthologies.

Like her characters Fran and Annerin in ‘The Shattered Truce’, she loves to explore the mountains on foot, and her favourite destination is the English Lake District. When not writing, she’s often out hiking or looking for stone circles and iron age hill forts.

Favourite authors include JRR Tolkien, Rosemary Sutcliff and Madeline Miller.