Donna Levin

Who is Donna Levin?

Donna Levin is a San Francisco-based author, editor and writing teacher. She has published the novels Extraordinary Means and California Street.

Born in Oakland, California, Levin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in theater arts, and earned a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Levin worked for many years for the University of California, Berkeley Extension as an instructor in the creative writing department. Levin drew from her experiences as a workshop leader there and at other venues to write two books on the craft of fiction, Get That Novel Started and Get That Novel Written.

Levin’s papers are part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, and her novels are part of the collection of “California novels” in the California State Library.