Donna Nucci is a debut novelist, writer, nurse, healthcare leader, educator, and lifelong listener.

 

Her work has placed her beside people at some of life’s most intimate thresholds, in hospice, pediatric oncology, childbirth, pregnancy loss, illness, grief, and death. Those experiences shaped her fascination with the stories people carry and the truths that often remain unspoken.

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Her first novel, The Penny, grew from questions about mothers and daughters, memory, love, loss, and the hidden lives of women. Losing her own mother deepened the emotional heart of the story and her curiosity about how much of a mother’s life her children can ever truly know.

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A mother of four, Donna is a Rhode Island native and graduate of Salve Regina University. She now lives in Connecticut with her husband, Greg.