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 so she could write about her adventures during the family’s summer vacations. 

After receiving her BS in Theater from Northwestern University she returned to DC. There, while announcing at various radio stations and performing in film and television productions, 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 series to have a Standing Room Only audience. Another one-woman play, Black Roses was produced by Young Audiences of Washington, DC.

Other stories by D. M. include The Curist, which received Honorable Mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, 3rd Quarter 2024 and the Baltimore Science Fiction Society Amateur Writing Contest; and Dance With Me which appears in the Creatures, Crimes and Creativity Anthology 2024 and the Kinsman Quarterly Iridescence Anthology.

Currently, D. M. is working on several projects including the screenplay version of A Long Way From Home; a paranormal satire with the working title Immigrant McFee; and a non-fiction, Ebony Images: The African American Experience in Film, which combines her love of film and history.

She and her husband are the creators of the Denise and Joe Cross Scholarship for the Creatures, Crime and Creativity Con, a writers' convention which takes place in Columbia, Maryland.