Donna McMahon

My priority is to tell an engrossing story populated with memorable characters, in a vivid, textured setting that gives you something to think about later. My novels should be hard to put down, and when you turn that last page, I hope you think to yourself: “that was really worth reading.

In university I studied history; now I write future history. My 22nd century Cascadia (the Pacific Northwest of North America, from northern California to Alaska) is a post apocalypse landscape, but not a dystopia. I'm not interested in bleak dystopias. Human beings have tremendous resilience and creativity. We owe it to ourselves to imagine futures we would want to live in.

A native of North Vancouver, BC, I am fortunate enough to live in Gibsons, BC—a town that was voted “The Most Liveable Community in the World” (under 20,000 population) in a UN competition in 2009. Visit me at Drowned City Press (http://drownedcitypress.ca), or at my facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110542395635802).

These are my novels:

Dance of Knives

Second Childhood

I also have stories in these anthologies:

A Mosque Among the Stars

Futures from Nature

Northwest Passages: A Cascadiacon Anthology

- Donna McMahon