SUNSHINE O’DONNELL

An award-winning poet, essayist, and educator, Sunshine O’Donnell teaches experiential workshops in creative writing, visual art, and quantum physics to underserved children in poverty-stricken schools and youth residential facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Through The Coffeehouse Project, a mobile-classroom program O’Donnell founded in 1994, she has published hundreds of literary magazines for underserved adolescents and abused and abandoned children. O’Donnell lives in the Germantown section of Philadelphia with her husband. Open Me is her first novel.