Elizabeth Donald is an American

United States

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 author, best known for writing horror and science fiction, including the Nocturnal Urges vampire mystery series.

Biography

She was born in 1975 in Merced, California

Merced, California

Merced is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California in the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 78,958. Incorporated in 1889, Merced is a charter city that operates under a council-manager government...

, the older of two children to Ralph Donald, a professor of mass communications at SIUE, and Patrice Stribling, a classical pianist

Pianist

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. Donald attended Bryn Mawr School

Bryn Mawr School

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 in Baltimore, Maryland and then Westview High School

Westview High School (Tennessee)

Westview High School is a public high school in Martin, Tennessee, in the Weakley County school district. As of 2006, it has an enrollment of approximately 650 students...

 in Martin, Tennessee

Martin, Tennessee

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, graduating in 1993. She next attended the University of Memphis

University of Memphis

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, initially studying theater, and then transferred to the University of Tennessee at Martin

University of Tennessee at Martin

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 to study journalism.

Her first novel, Nocturnal Urges, was published in 2004, launching the three-book series. Since then, she has published several novels and novellas in electronic and print, as well as a number of short story publications in various magazines. She has won the Darrell Award for horror and science fiction three times and has been a finalist for other awards, including the Prism Award from Romance Writers of America

Romance Writers of America

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. She regularly appears at horror- and science fiction-themed conventions such as Archon

Archon

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, Dragoncon, Midsouthcon

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 and Hypericon

Hypericon

Hypericon is a speculative fiction convention held yearly in June in Nashville, Tennessee. Hypericon is presented by Frontiers-Nashville, a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of the fannish community and all their myriad interests...

. In 2009, her novella titled "The Cold Ones" (Sam's Dot Publishing) sold out its first print run in 48 hours. The protagonist of this novella was named after fellow author Sara M. Harvey

Sara M. Harvey

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.

She has one son, born in 1999. Currently divorced, she works at the Belleville News-Democrat

Belleville News-Democrat

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 newspaper in Illinois

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.http://www.protect.org/articles/belleville_nd.shtml. She has won multiple journalism awards, including the Southern Illinois Editorial Association award for education journalism. She is vice president of the St. Louis Society of Professional Journalists

Society of Professional Journalists

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 and a member of the national ethics commission. Her uncle, Michael Stribling

Michael Stribling

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, is an award-winning New Age

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 musician.

Works

• Nocturnal Urges, 2004, novel, Ellora's Cave Publishing
  • Winner of the 2005 Darrell Award
  • Finalist for the 2004 Prism Award
  • Rereleased in 2005 by Cerridwen Press
• A More Perfect Union, 2005, novel, Ellora's Cave Publishing
  • Finalist for the 2006 Darrell Award
  • Rereleased in 2005 by Cerridwen Press
• Setting Suns, 2006, anthology, New Babel Books
  • ISBN 0-9720197-6-6
  • Winner of the 2007 Darrell Award for the story, "Wonderland"
• Tandem, 2006, ebook, Ellora's Cave Publishing
  • Also appears in "Sultry Summer Fun," a print anthology published in May 2007
• Nocturne, 2006 Cerridwen Press (this is a compilation of Nocturnal Urges and A More Perfect Union)
  • ISBN 1-4199-5404-0
• Abaddon, 2007, novel, Cerridwen Press
  • ISBN 9781419911224 ebook
  • ISBN 9781419957970 2008 paperback
  • Winner of the 2008 Darrell Award
• "Bargaining With Spiders," 2007, short story, appeared in the anthology "Twilight and Thorns" by Circle Dark Publishing.
• "Weathergirl," May 2009, short story, appearing in the anthology "Cover of Darkness" by Sam's Dot Publishing.
• The Dreadmire Chronicles, July 2009, Spellbinder Books
• The Cold Ones, October 2009, Sam's Dot Publishing

External links

• Facebook profile
• CultureGeek pop culture blog
• Jasmine-Jade Enterprises author page
• Dragoncon guest author page
• "Reporter sinks her teeth into vampire romance," Belleville News-Democrat, Oct. 2, 2008
• "Merced native releases new vampire novel," Merced Sun-Star, Nov. 7, 2008
• "Closing the Loopholes for Incestuous Offenders," by Elizabeth Donald, Belleville News-Democrat, reprinted on PROTECT
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  web site.
• "Local author is living the dream," Edwardsville Intelligencer, Oct. 26, 2009
• SPJ National Ethics Commission