LaDonna Witmer

In previous lives, LaDonna Witmer was a newspaper journalist, an advertising copywriter, a brand voice expert, an editorial director, a public speaker, and a poetry slammer. She now tends her dogs, dahlias, and daughter on a small quinta in rural Portugal while writing essays, poetry, and two memoirs. LaDonna has poems and prose published in Zero Readers, SWWIM, Quail Bell Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion, and Take the Fruit: An Anthology of Religious Trauma. She writes regularly on Substack at The Long Scrawl.