Donna Matthews

Donna Matthews

Writing the I Veri historical-crime series as DM Matthews

Donna Matthews writes historical fiction and memoir rooted in Sicily and the immigrant experience — stories of what families keep, what they are forced to bury, and the patient, generation-spanning work of setting it right.

The granddaughter of a Sicilian who came through Ellis Island in 1919, she grew up Italian-American in Auburn, in Upstate New York, and has lived in the United Kingdom for the past twenty-six years — a life spent, like the books, on both shores of the same crossing.

Writing as DM Matthews, she is the author of the I Veri series — a multigenerational historical-crime saga that begins in 1870s Sicily and follows one woman's thirty-year reckoning across two continents. It opens with The Gabellotto's Daughter and continues in The Last Name.

Her memoir, One Woman's View: A Life Lived Loudly, and its companion novel, The Beads He Carried, are published under her own name.

She publishes under the Cassaro Publishing imprint.