D M Gordon is the prize-winning author of Fourth World (Adastra Press), Nightly, at the Institute of the Possible(Hedgerow Books)—a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award, and Loosestrife for Porcupines, 2026, finalist for the Blue Light Book Award. Two novels, Gabriel, about a lost boy trying to find himself and home among northern islands in the 1960's, and Edda, about his grandmother and the destructive love of her life during WW II, are slated for publication by Sibylline Press in 2027 and 2028.
Gordon's past history includes, as a classical pianist with a masters from B.U., teaching, and performing chamber music; as political activist, fundraising, campaign staffing for Kamala Harris in Bucks County, PA, and writing a weekly Good News blog for FridayAction, and as 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, following aptitude testing with The Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, she dedicated herself to becoming a writer.
10,000 hours later, she is a novelist, poet, creative non-fiction writer, reader, and editor. 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 and 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, several of which were honored as finalists for The Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Award and Massachusetts Book Award. Short works have been published widely in journals such as The Cincinnati Review, Poetry Daily, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet—a zine by Small Beer Press, run by local literary heroes Gavin Grant and Kelly Link. Awards include, but are not limited to, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship in fiction and Glimmer Train’s First Prize for her short story, “The Work of Hunters is Another Thing." Apart from the novels and latest poetry book, she's also launching a new Substack called Leaf Sheep, offering poems, classic and new, about animals living among us, and how we live among them.
You can find her at www.dmgordon.com.
