Donna Hickman is a proud North Carolinian who loves to showcase her rural and coastal

heritage in her writings. She grew up in a farming community in southeastern North Carolina

and now makes her home in Wilmington. After graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill, she taught

writing and literature for over thirty years at both secondary and post-secondary levels before

writing a monthly food column that showcased flavors of the Tar Heel State. She currently

freelances feature stories for journals and magazines with a southern purview. While she is

sometimes referred to as a humorist, she characterizes herself as an attentive observer of people

and their circumstances. According to Donna, most of what she writes reflects the myriad of

personalities from her life experience, and while tears on her pages are a sweetening element to

story, the endings to her longer fictional works will always be hopeful.