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# Donna Gold: Writer

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- [Brooding with Storm Clouds:](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/) - Return to Oaxaca a novel by Donna Gold After twenty-six years, award-winning photographer Lena Mendel returns to Oaxaca, Mexico, where at the age of sixteen she spent a transformational school year with six other girls. Now she’s back with Marta and Carmen, classmates from that magical time. With them is Lena’s adolescent son Gabriel, bent
- [Brooding with Storm Clouds](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/donna-gold-writer-mobile/) - After twenty-six years, award-winning photographer Lena Mendel returns to Oaxaca, Mexico, where at the age of sixteen she spent a transformational school year with six other girls. Now she’s back with Marta and Carmen, classmates from that magical time. With them is Lena’s adolescent son Gabriel, bent on establishing his independence from his mother’s single
- [Other Work](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/other-work/) - A small sampling of my work as a journalist, magazine editor, and oral historian. Click to read.
- [Contact Me](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/contact-me/) - Available September 2026… though you can already pre-order from Culicidae Press:https://culicidaepress.com/gold-brooding-with-storm-clouds-return-to-oaxaca/ At least 50% of the author's proceeds will be shared with these three Oaxacan organizations: Fondo Guadalupe Musalem (fondoguadalupemusalem.org) supporting the education of young women from Oaxaca’s rural, Original, and Afro-Mexican communities;Libros para Pueblos (www.librosparapueblos.org) supporting rural libraries throughout Oaxaca; &Center for Integral Small
- [About Donna Gold](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/about-donna-gold/) - Brooding with Storm Clouds was inspired by an extraordinary summer high school program that lured me from New York to Oaxaca, Mexico and led to my study of anthropology at Bennington College and UCLA, and a master’s degree at the New School for Social Research. Applying these studies to journalism, I wrote for national and
- [Excerpt](https://www.donnagoldwriter.com/brooding-with-storm-clouds-opening-excerpt/) - Horns, drums, tuba—and something else, too, some lilting melody like a strain from a distant dream. Ahead, huge puppets and laughing children. Another dream? But no, she was awake, she was here. Here in Oaxaca! After twenty-six years, she, Lena Mendel, had returned to the city that for one extraordinary high school year she called