Kathaleen Donnelly is a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent’s Hospital School of Nursing, which was in Greenwich Village, NYC. She has lived on Long Island all her life, retired from Stony Brook University Hospital after 40 years, having spent the last 20 as a nurse practitioner in the Cardiology Department, now per diem. Her son Keith was born in 1977 and now lives in California with his wife Annie.
The Sweetbriar Nature Camera Club, part of the Photographic Federation of Long Island, helped Donnelly learn what makes a good photograph. She edited three anthologies: Paumanok, Poems and Pictures of Long Island (2009), Paumanok, Interwoven (2013), and Paumanok, Transition (2022).
She began writing poetry in her 50s. Her work has appeared or been published in the following publications: Bards Annual, CEED: Center for Environmental Education and Discovery, Childhood, Gallery North, Long Island Newspaper, Long Island Quarterly, Long Island Sounds: An Anthology of Poetry from Maspeth to Montauk and Beyond, Nassau County Poet Laureate Review, Oberon, The Performance Poets Association Literary Review, Poems of Illness and Healing, The Seventh Quarry, Songs of Seasoned Women, Suffolk County Poetry Review, A Taste of Poetry, Towards Forgiveness, Whispers and Shouts, and Writing Outside the Lines.
See her work at:
poetographyLongIsland.com
Paperback: 100 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (June 30, 2025)