Donna was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.  She graduated High School in 1974 and went on to get married, raise a family and travel.    In 1993 she relocated back to Central Louisiana, where she settled with her 3 children, went back to school, and eventually started working for the State of Louisiana.  In 2010 her world expanded spiritually to show a new dimension of reality that launched her on a new path, a path of learning, growing and writing.  She retired from The Department of Corrections after 22 years and has started her new career as a fiction writer.