Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans is the author of two novels: River Woman and Tea by the Sea. Her short fiction and essays appear in the Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Ms., and Electric Lit, among others. She lives in Maryland and is the owner of DC Writers Room, a coworking studio for writers.
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Home Is a Scent
1. My first memory of a place beyond Jamaica is a small bite of a green-skinned apple. It’s spongy, nothing like the red-skinned, pear-shaped Otaheite apple I know. “An American apple,” someone says. I don’t remember who, but I remember I didn’t like the texture of this American apple and I know that this […]
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Home & Place as Sparks for Writing
Conversations | Donna Hemans
Nonfiction writer Donna Hemans and poet Carolyn Oliver discuss “home” as inspiration, writing sensory, and their future work.