Yona Zeldis McDonough

Biography

Yona Zeldis McDonough

Yona Zeldis McDonough grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where she had early dreams of becoming a ballerina, but she changed from this when she went to college. She attended Vassar College and studied literature, language, and art history. After realizing that the graduate program at Columbia University was not making her happy, she finished the year out and began freelance writing in every possible place, newspapers, book reviews, brochures, until she gained some traction and notability when she could publish works that she had began in her time at Columbia. Her books include THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS and IN DAHLIA’S WAKE---and her third novel, BREAKING THE BANK, will be out in September. She presently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and her two children and two small, yappy dogs.