Donna Vorreyer is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Unrivered (Sundress Publications, 2025),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, Salamander, 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. She has received residences from Kimmel-Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, South Porch Residencies, and Sundress Academy at Firefly Farms.
Donna hosts the online poetry reading/interview series A Hundred PItchers of Honey, which maintains a YouTube Archive, and she teaches classes online both as an independent and for the education arm of Fahmidan Journal.
She is the co-founder and co-edits Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters with Rachel Bunting. The online journal, founded in 2025, features poetry, prose, and visual art.
Also a visual artist, Donna's mixed media, paint, and photography works have appeared in or on the covers of North American Review, Pithead Chapel, Penn Review, The Account, Gone Lawn, orangepeel magazine, Barzakh Magazine, About Place Journal, The Boiler, Thimble Lit, Waxwing, and other literary journals as well as in local libraries and galleries.