D. M. Cross

D. M. Cross was born in Philadelphia, PA and raised in Washington, DC. She started writing at age 10 when her mother gave her a diary to write about her adventures during family vacations. 

After receiving her BS in Theater from Northwestern University she returned to DC, where she completed a one-woman play about the world's first self-made millionairess, Madam C. J. Walker. She performed Madam at the National Theater's Helen Hayes Gallery becoming the first performer of the Monday Night at the National theater series to have a Standing Room Only audience. Another one-woman play, Black Roses was produced by Young Audiences of Washington, DC.

She has author-published two works: A Long Way From Home, a romantasy, and Immigrant McFee, a science fiction political satire.

Her short story The Curist garnered Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest and the Baltimore Science Fiction Society Amateur Writing Contest. Her story Dance With Me appeared in the Kinsman Quarterly Iridescence Anthology and the Creatures, Crimes and Creativity Anthology, 2024.

Currently, D. M. is working on several projects including the screenplay version of A Long Way From Home, a travelogue, ACross Japan (spelled that way intentionally), and a non-fiction, Ebony Images: The African American Experience in Film, which combines her love of film and history.

D. M., her husband and their daughter live in Maryland.