Donna Latham is an award-winning author and playwright and a lifelong nature lover. A former librarian and educator, Donna received the ASPCA Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award for Fire Dogs. She also received an Honorable Mention Award from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild for the play "Paddy and the Mermaid." Donna is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Illinois Reading Council. She lives in temperate St. Charles, Illinois, with her husband Nick Longo, an environmental scientist, and Nikki, a sweet Lhasa Apso who’s adapted for life as a writer’s mascot.
