Wendie Donabie is Co-Founder of Muskoka Authors Association. In her role as Vice-President, she handles promotions and banking.
As both a writer and visual artist, Wendie enjoys painting pictures with words and flavouring her poetry and prose with alliteration, similes and metaphors. When words won’t do the job, she turns to her easel and a fresh canvas. Today Wendie divides her time between her computer, her easel and Heron’s Nest Studio Gallery in Bracebridge where her art and books by Muskoka Authors are available for purchase.
Her work has been published in magazines and in poetry and literary collections. Several years so she won Gold in an online magazine competition that led to self-publication of This Little Rock We Call Earth in which she addresses our need to care for and protect all life on the planet. Then in 2024, Wendie published Views from the Edge of the Earth, a collection of poetic reflections accompanied by black and white images of her original paintings and photographs. It is her homage to Mother Earth, a sharing of the beauty and diversity she sees threatened by anthropogenic activity.
Current projects include a new collection of reflections on life and nature, short speculative fiction stories and a murder mystery set in Muskoka.
In 2014, Wendie received the Muskoka YWCA Woman of Distinction for Arts, Culture and Creativity.
Her greatest joy is living in Muskoka with her partner, best friend, constant support and encourager, Hugh Nichols
You can follow Wendie’s creative journey on www.WendieDonabie.com, Facebook and Instagram.
Her books are available on Amazon, Heron’s Nest and at many retail locations throughout Muskoka.