LaDonna Witmer

In previous lives, LaDonna Witmer was a newspaper journalist, advertising copywriter, brand voice expert, editorial director, public speaker, and poetry slammer. She now tends her dogs, dahlias, and daughter on a small quinta in rural Portugal while writing essays, poems, and memoir. LaDonna has work published or forthcoming in Thimble, How I Learned, The Turning Leaf Journal, KHÔRA, Literary Mama, Carmalarky, Zero Readers, SWWIM, Take the Fruit: An Anthology of Religious Trauma, and more. She is a Hedgebrook and Disquiet alum, and is writing a memoir about fundamentalism and fire. You can find her on Substack @ladonnawitmer and on Instagram @wordsbyladonna.