Donna Baier Stein | |
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| Born | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Occupation | Writer, publisher, copywriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, non-fiction |
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Donna Baier Stein is an American author, publisher, and copywriter.
Donna Baier Stein | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Occupation | Writer, publisher, copywriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction, poetry, non-fiction |
| Website | |
| www | |
Donna Baier Stein is an American author, publisher, and copywriter.
Donna is the author of The Silver Baron's Wife, Sympathetic People, Sometimes You Sense the Difference, Letting Rain Have Its Say (poetry book), and Scenes from the Heartland: Stories Based on Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton. She was a Founding Editor of Bellevue Literary Review [1] and founded and publishes Tiferet an interfaith literary Journal. She has received a Bread Loaf Scholarship, Johns Hopkins University Seminars Fellowship, grants from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and Poetry Society of Virginia, and a Scholarship from the Summer Literary Seminars. [2]
Donna's writing have appeared in Next Avenue, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Saturday Evening Post, Writer's Digest, Confrontation, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Washingtonian, New Ohio Review as well as in the anthologies I've Always Meant to Tell You (Pocket Books), To Fathers: What I've Never Said (featured in O Magazine). [3] [4]
She was a freelance direct marketing copywriter from 1980 to 2014, writing for Smithsonian, World Wildlife Fund, Time-Life, The Nature Conservancy and other publishers and environmental groups. She created seminars on copywriting for the Direct Marketing Association and has taught copywriting and creative writing at universities and organizations. Her two nonfiction books on copywriting are Write on Target (co-authored with Floyd Kemske and published by McGraw Hill) and The New Marketing Conversation (co-authored with Alex MacAaron and published by Thomson Publishing Group). [5]
Baier Stein was named Direct Marketer of the Year by the New England Direct Marketing Association in 2004. [6]
Three of her short stories have been turned into plays and read at Salmagundi Club in New York in 2023 and 2024, with a professional cast of actors. [7] Her short story "On the Banks of the Save" was a quarter-finalist in the 2015 ScreenCraft Short Story Awards.
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