Donna Levin (born September 4, 1954) is a San Francisco-based author, editor and writing teacher.
She has published the novels Extraordinary Means (Arbor House, 1987), California Street (Simon and Schuster, 1990), There’s More Than One Way Home (Chickadee Prince Books, 2017) and He Could Be Another Bill Gates (Chickadee Prince Books, 2018).
Born in the city of Oakland, California, Levin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in theater arts, and earned a J.D.
from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.Levin taught for many years for the University of California, Berkeley Extension as an instructor in the creative writing department.
Levin drew from her experiences as a workshop leader there and at other venues to write two books on the craft of fiction, Get That Novel Started (Writer’s Digest Books, 1992) and Get That Novel Written (Writer’s Digest Books, 1996).
Levin’s papers are part of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, and her novels are part of the collection of “California Fiction” in the California State Library.