Life has taken me in many directions since graduating from Brown, but my days studying creative writing with Michael Harper, Jack Hawkes, and Edwin Honig were the beginnings of something that has never lost its hold. Part of my story is that it took me until the age of 64 (65 when my book comes out) to publish my first novel. The essay and photos from that project were shown at Harvard’s Fogg Museum, Boston’s French Library, and Tufts. I was grateful to be able to translate so much of what I learned about oppression, torture, and imprisonment into my fictional story. My novel was inspired by that experience. At the time, I had been interviewing and photographing former prisoners of conscience from all over the world. BAM published my photo essay about my documentary photography project, “Putting Faces on the Unimaginable,” in October 1989. I was a PEN Discovery in New England and a Ploughshares Discovery over the years. I’ve since published several short stories and have received literary awards. Afterwards, I was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing at Stanford. While at Brown, I received the Kim Ann Arstark Award in creative writing. Donna Gordon writes: “My novel What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me is due out from Regal House in June 2022.
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