Marian Mitchell Donahue
photo credit: Tiffany Drayton
Marian Mitchell Donahue is a writer and teacher in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated cum laude from The Catholic University of America in 2013 with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Politics.
She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Stony Brook University, where she was awarded the Deborah Hecht Memorial Prize in Fiction. BACKSTITCH is her first book.
Books
BACKSTITCH
Set in an art gallery in the Washington, DC area, and structured as a journey through the gallery’s rooms, BACKSTITCH is the story of two sisters who reunite at a retrospective of their troubled mother’s art and must confront the consequences of her ambition and the difficult, private truths behind the family’s public narrative. The novel is an exploration of family ties, the gift and cost of artistic talent, and the legacy that the artist’s children must carry.
