Donna Thorland graduated from Yale with a degree in classics
and art history. She managed architecture and interpretation at the
Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, for several years then earned an MFA in film
production from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Thorland has been a Disney / ABC Television Writing Fellow, a WGA Writer’s Access
Project honoree, and has written for the television shows Cupid and Tron:
Uprising. The director of several award-winning short films, her most
recent project aired on WNET Channel 13. Her fiction has appeared in Alfred
Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
