Growing up, Donna Freitas loved to skate at her local rink, Thayer Arena in Warwick, Rhode Island. While she never quite mastered jumping, she could do a mean hockey stop, and spent lots of time after school on the ice with friends. She brought all the pleasure of those skating memories to Gold Medal Winter.

Donna is the author of four young-adult novels, and a big fan of all things figure skating. She divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Barcelona, Spain.