In addition to her writing, Donato is the creator of various feminist digital artworks and performance interventions, and is also an illustrator, photographer, singer-songwriter, and practitioner of Zen meditation. [7][8][1][9] She has collaborated with artists including Anna Moschovakis, Told Slant, David Jhave Johnston, Anastasios Karnazes, Naomi Falk, and Mark Baumer.[1][10] She is the Assistant Chairperson of Writing at Pratt Institute, where she virtually addressed the Class of 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][11][12]
Donato is currently training to be a psychoanalyst.[13]
Works
Donato's works include publications in Forever,Parapraxis,GoldFlakePaint, The Chicago Review,The Brooklyn Rail,Oversound,VICE,DIAGRAM, The Believer,BOMB, and Harp & Altar.[14] Her books are:
Someone Else's Body (chapbook) (Cannibal Books, 2009)[15]
Her collaboration with Jeff T. Johnson on SPECIAL AMERICA was an ongoing performance that ended in 2016.[25] This work started within the electronic literature community as a performance and was translated as a movie.[26] She collaborated on netprovs such as All Time High.[27] Her video-based work, Material Studies, has been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, Knockdown Center, Harvard University, and University Fernando Pessoa.[28]
Awards
John Hawkes Prize in Fiction for Burial[6] judged by Robert Coover.[2]
2020 Distinguished Teacher Award at Pratt Institute[14]
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