Donna Decker
Town: Ashburnham, MA
“Since the age of eight, I have been committed to social justice. The Sisters of St. Joseph taught us that all people are equal, and I bought it. Totally. In all of my writing, as a columnist for the Gardner News and the Worcester Telegram, as an academic writing articles and presenting at conferences, and now, as a novelist, I grapple with questions that touch on social justice. As an English Professor (retired/emerita), I imbued all of my classes with discussions of justice, equality, empathy in literature and in life.”
Published
Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You (Novel, Inanna Publications, 2015)
A novel about the real-life events surrounding the 1989 Montreal Massacre in which 14 women engineering students were killed by a 25-year-old man because they were women.
In the Works
A novel about three sisters negotiating the aftermath of growing up in a strict Catholic family. When two of the sisters, who were deeply connected as children, become estranged because of their respective traumas, might their new, grown-up perspectives allow them to reunite?
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Connect with Donna
- Email: Donnadecker878@gmail.com
- Instagram: @drdonnadecker
- Facebook: Donna Decker
