Donna Maree Hanson is a Canberra-based writer of fantasy, science fiction, horror and, under a pseudonym, paranormal romance. She has been writing creatively since November 2000.
She has had about 20 short stories published in various small press publications and ezines. In 2006, she won a Varuna Long Lines Fellowship for her novel in progress, Dragon Wine, and was also shortlisted for the Varuna Manuscript Development Award that year. Donna has also had two of her short stories receive honourable mentions in Datlow’s year’s best horror.
In January 2013 Rayessa and the Space Pirates was published with Harlequin’s digital imprint, Escape Publishing. This novella length work is a young-adult, science fiction adventure/romance (space opera).
In her Dragon Wine series she has also published Shatterwing and Skywatcher. The series is adult dark fantasy and was published with Momentum (Pan Macmillan Australia’s digital imprint) in 2014.