About

D M Gordon's various incarnations are pieces of a larger puzzle. She’s been a competition swimmer; a classical pianist with a masters in performance—teaching and performing chamber music; a political activist; and an equestrian—schooling high level dressage mounts with Olympic team members. Her oddest job, briefly held, was as a courier for stallion semen. After a major course correction, she dedicated herself to becoming a writer.

10,000 hours later, she is a novelist, poet, creative non-fiction writer, reader, and editor. To date, she’s produced prize-winning poems and short stories, two novels, three poetry books, and a book-length work of creative non-fiction.

She owes her literary skill to the support of many, including professors at Smith College who welcomed her dogged auditing. Poets, authors, and editors who sharpened her abilities include Eleanor Wilner, Ellen Bryant Voight, Tony Earley, Sigrid Nunez, Tom Jenks and others, including the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut who, for a time, was holed up in a lonely office in the far reaches of Smith’s Neilson Library and dispensing wisdom.

As an editor at Hedgerow Books, she midwifed the publication of ten poetry collections, two of which were honored as finalists for The Montaigne Medal and Eric Hoffer Award.

Small works have been published widely in journals such as The Massachusetts Review, The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Daily and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet—a zine by Small Beer Press. Awards include, but are not limited to, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in fiction, Glimmer Train’s First Prize for her short story, “The Work of Hunters is Another Thing," and, as a finalist, publication of various poems for The Pablo Neruda Award from Nimrod.