Donna Vorreyer is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: To Everything There Is (Sundress Publications, 2020),Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story (Sundress Publications, 2016), and A House of Many Windows (Sundress Publications, 2013)
She has also published seven chapbooks: The Girl (2017, Porkbelly Press), Tinder, Smolder, Bones and Snow (2016, dancing girl press), Encantado, Illustrated by Matt Kish (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2015), We Build Houses of Our Bodies (dancing girl press, 2013), The Imagined Life of A Pioneer Wife (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2013), Ordering the Hours (Maverick Duck Press, 2012), and Womb/Seed/Fruit (Finishing Line Press, 2010).
Her poetry, fiction, and book reviews have appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Sugar House Review, Rhino, Diode, Waxwing, Juxtaprose, Poet Lore, Border Crossings, Harpur Palate, and Quarterly West. She has appeared in anthologies such as Beyond the Frame (2023), A Face to Meet the Faces (2013) and New Poetry from the Midwest (2015), and her poems have been nominated for multiple Pushcart and Best of the Net Awards.
A fledgling visual artist, Donna's mixed media, paint, and photography works have appeared in North American Review, Pithead Chapel, Penn Review, Barzakh Magazine, About Place Journal, The Boiler, Thimble Lit, Waxwing, and Alice Says.
Recently retired from a 36 year career in K-8 public education, Donna is always looking forward to new adventures.