Barbara Donnelly Lane

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Barbara Donnelly Lane’s work has appeared in descant, Pilgrimage, Sport Literate, driftwood press, Thrice Fiction, The Palo Alto Review, The Amethyst Review (Canada), Tincture Journal (Australia), Deep South Magazine, and elsewhere. She wrote a column for the Marietta Daily Journal for years, and her reporting has appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.She has been a finalist in the Faulkner–Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in multiple years, most recently in 2025 for Running Back to Happy, a memoir about her father, and in 2026 for the manuscript that became The Last Gift — an account of walking five hundred miles across Spain after the end of a thirty-year marriage. Her memoir writing has also earned an honorable mention from the Houston Writers’ Guild. Her play I Left a Dead Man in a Bathtub in England was produced at the New Plays Festival outside Dallas. She is also the author of two children’s books, which she sold by visiting elementary schools around the country.She teaches history, has run the Boston Marathon, and lives in Austin, Texas, with her dog, Atticus.