Donna Gordon was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow in Peterborough, NH. She is a figurative and portrait photographer. She received the 2024 LensCulture Jurors' Choice award for a portrait and was finalist for portrait series. She received the 2024 and 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron Award for a portrait series, and honorable mention for a few other categories, including Women Seen By Women, Self-Portrait, and Landscape series. Work will be on view at Fotonostrum, the House of Mediterranean Photography in November 2024. She's represented by Galatea Fine Art, SoWa, Boston. She's working on two series: "In the Garden," a series of photographs of contemporary women, trans, bi and others--in response to the stereotypical idea of Eve in the Garden of Eden. And a second series: "My Sister's Schizophrenia." Her work with former political prisoners culminated in "Putting Faces on the Unimaginable," exhibited at Harvard University's Fogg Museum. She's been included in solo and group shows in many museums and galleries. Her debut novel, What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me, received a starred Kirkus Review and was named by Kirkus Review among the top 100 Indie novels of 2023.