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LaDonna Witmer is currently writing a memoir and has published four collections of poetry: New Hymns (2019), The Secrets of Falling (2007), a limited-edition chapbook, She is a Death Star (2007), and Shedding the Angel Skin (2000).

LaDonna was a Midwest transplant to San Francisco, that magnificent city of misfits. She lived in SF for 20 years, then moved across the Atlantic to Portugal in 2021.

She writes about the grey things that live at the edges of eyes and on the tips of tongues. You can find her most current writing here: The Long Scrawl. Her personal website (ladonnawitmer.com) showcases her collection of "cinepoetry" -- poetic cinematic shorts -- which have won awards and recognition at The San Francisco Women's Film Festiv ...more

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