Donna Pucciani, a Chicago-based writer, was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in the New York City area. She earned a Ph.D. in Humanities, with a specialty in Music, from New York University, and taught in secondary schools and colleges in the East and Midwest for several decades before retiring to write full-time.
Her poetry has been published on four continents, translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Italian, and nominated a number of times for the Pushcart Prize. She has won awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Poetry on the Lake and other organizations, and served for a dozen years as Vice President of Poets Club of Chicago, a group in which she is still an active member. Her books of poetry include Chasing the Saints, To Sip Darjeeling at Dawn, Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox, A Light Dusting of Breath, and Edges, as well as several chapbooks. Donna Pucciani, Poet
