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Persimmon Tree is pleased and proud to present the list of our generous 2025 donors. Our deepest thanks to you all!

We are grateful for every gift we receive, however large or small, and every donor is recognized on this page, including Persimmon Tree’s Crown Jewels (donors who gave $2,500 or more in 2025), the members of the Diamond Circle (all those whose gifts in 2025 totaled $1,000 or more), the Emerald Circle (gifts in 2025 totaling $500 to $999), and the Ruby Circle (gifts in 2025 totaling $200 to $499).

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Lynn Connor
Five Partners
Anonymous (Fiction prize endowment)

Sally Buffington
Nan Gefen
Melanie Perish
Susan Salt
Margaret Wagner
Laura Zimmer Tamakoshi
Jean Zorn

Mary “Polly” Cleveland
Judy Collinson
Lucy Cooper
Anna Dunlap
Facebook Birthday Gifts (Greta Berman, Elizabeth Zimmer)
Grace Harde
Cynthia Hogue
Ann Levin
Alicia Ostriker
Peggy Shumaker
Kathryn Sklar
Jody Stewart

Jane Attanucci
Aliki Barnstone
Christine Beck
Sheryll Bedingfield
Joan Behrens Bergman
Andrea Carter Brown
Jane Brown
Rosellen Brown
Catharine Clark-Sayles
Mary Alice Dixon
Helen DuBois
Sally Frances
Susan Glassman
Susan Halpern
Joann Hamick Quintana
Alice Ann Hand
Carol Hendrickson
Angela R. Himsel
Ella Hirst
Janet Holmgren
Joanne Jagoda
Carol Kammen
Indra Kapur
Martha H Kennedy
Deborah Kelly Kloepfer
Sue Leonard
Peggy Maisel
Jane Manaster
Sara McAulay
Victoria Millard
Ruth Nicholson
Linda Osborne
MaryKate Owens
Sondra Perl
Vicki Phillips
Julie Pratt
Gena Raps
Keith Reid
Judith Ross
Roberta Schultz
Mimi Schwartz
Jane Seskin
Lynne Shaner (In honor of my mother, Deeon U. Tucker, who instilled in me the love of reading and writing.)
Judi Silvano
Katherine T. Soniat
Julia Spring
Ann F. Stanford
Carrie Stein
Hillary Stern
Mary Thomas
Molly Tinsley
Robbie Tisch
windflower

Theo Anker
Paula Bernstein
Ann Boaden (In loving memory of Rev. Bunny Hughes)
Emily Breese
Karen Brennan
Mary Burke
Zoe Burke
Kim Burnett
Alice Campbell Romano
Ellen Chapnick
Ann Chase
Dorian Chong
Marian Clark
Susan Connelly
Patricia Crisafulli
Liz deBeer
Beth DellaRocco
Irene Diveris
Rosetta Dorsa
Barbara J. Drummond
Janet Elshazly
Gail Entrekin
Barbara Felton
Don Foster
Betti Franceschi
Alice Fulton
Janie Gabbett
Meck Groot
Robin Gross
Melinda Halpert
Christine Hills
Lauren Howard
Mary Ann Huckabay
Judy Ireland
Celia Jeffries
Sharon Kennedy
Claire Keyes
Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer
Marianne Kranz
Pamela Kress-Dunn
Vicki Lindner
Fran Lubow
Ronna Magy
Sally Malone
Diane Masucci
Marilyn Mazur
Patricia McGovern Behrens
Ellen B. Nenner
Amy Newburger
Sara Palmer
Margaret C Pearson
Nancy Kline Piore
Nancy Poling
Diana Raab
Ellen Reichman
Mary Lou Reker
Ziggy Rendler-Bregman
M.M. Cliggett Reynolds
Penny Righthand
Gillian Russell (In memory of Roger D. Isaacs)
Janet Saunders
Jan Schmidt
Jane Schulman
Matson Sewell
Kate Sikerbol
Deborah Smith
Kim Sosin
Christine Stegel (A Christmas gift to my sister Cynthia Hogue)
M. Kathryn Taylor
Victoria Traube
Norma Tucker
Ellen Ulken
Katherine White
Eleanor Wilner
Janice Wilson
Nanci Woody
Sharon Wright
Anonymous (6 donors)

Fran Abrams
Jamilah Ali
Ina Anderson
Jane Ariel
Jane Armbruster
Gail Arnoff
Nancy Austin
Caryl Barnes
Jan Bartelli
Donna Bauman
Glenda Beall
Denise Beck-Clark
Karina Bergen
Margaret Camille Berliant
Rachel Biale
Marsha Blitzer
Alice Bloch
Catherine Bourassa
Lyn Brakeman
Nancy Braun
Patricia Brawley
Susan Love Brown
Sandra Butler
Emily Calvo
Tami Capriotti
Agnes Cardoni
Jane Carlson
Judith Carroll
Darlene Ceremello
Bonnie Beth Chernin
Diane Churchill
Judith Clayman
Alison Colby
Sheree Combs
Leslie Contos
Ruth Cook
Claudine Corbanese
Mary Cornelius
Barbara Crofford
Henrietta Dahlstrom
Marie Daniely
Marcy Darin
Nyla Dartt
Lucinda Dhavan
Shaheen Dil
Louise Dolan
Mary Donaldson-Evans
Laurie Drabble
Gail Duberchin
Catherine Duffy
Cyra Dumitru
Raymonde Dumont
Carol Egan
Rosanne Ehrlich
Olivia Eielson
Cathryn Essinger
Sara Etgen-Baker
Karin Evans
Yvonne Fein
Leah Potts Fisher
Lisa Gray Fisher
Karen FitzGerald
Susan Florence
Amy Fogerson
Cate Fosl
Jan Freeman
Amanda Freymann
Ruth Gais
Gaye Gambell-Peterson
Patricia Gardner
Linda Gelbrich
Karen George
Carol Gibson
Dorothy Gilbert
Carol Gilbertson
Sharon Goldberg
Naomi Goldberg Haas
Shirley Gray
Abby Greenberg
C. David Guerra
Nancy Gustafson
Jane Hale
Rosemary Hamm
Jo Hausam
Karinne Heise
Renee S. Henning
Marcia Herman-Giddens
Sally Hess
JoAnn Hoffman
Royce Holladay
Linda Holmes
Mara Holt
Anne Hotta
Gillian Isaacs Russell
Debra Kaufman
Barbara Kazdan
Sharon Kennedy
Yolanda Joosten
Jean Jackman
Lucille Jerue
Mary C Johansen
Arlene Johnson
Nancy Johnson
Barbara Johnstone
Anne Kaier
Irene Kane
Margaret Kane
Lois Keane
Deborah Ketai
Lois Kiely
Jean Kilbourne
Margaret Kirby
Susan Kress
Laurie Kuntz
Julie Landsman
Jacqueline Lapidus
Ellen Leary
Mindy Lewis
Ann Littlewood
Roberta Llewellyn
Monifa Love
Linda Lucas
Carol Luther
Anne Makeever
Kerry Marks
Carol Marsh
Claire Massey
Valerie Mathews
Suellen Mayfield
Amy Melman
Martha Mendelsohn
Harriet Miller
Lynne Miller
Kit Minden
Patricia Mirza
Elaine Morizono
Sandra Morris
Karen Morris
Rebecca Mueller
Jill Muhrer
Susan Murphy
Jade Myers
Linda Myers
Carol Nadell
Hope Nisly
Julie Novak-McSweeney (In memory of my Mother)
Dorty Nowak
Colleen Pallamary
Judith Pancoast
Elise Peeples
Roberta Peets
Andrea (Andi) Penner
Celeste Pfister
Paula Phipps
Jennifer Pickering
David Piemonte
Linda F. Piotrowski
Katha Pollitt
Sylvia Pollack
Linda Puner
Rosetta Radtke
Sylvia Ramos Cruz
Linda Rathkopf (In memory of Helena Svetla, extraordinary Czech artist)
Patricia Rauscher
Natalie Reid (In memory of Gloria Schleifer Reid)
Felice Rhiannon
Janette Robinson
Eleanor Rubin
Carol Lee Saffioti-Hughes
Susan Shaw Sailer
Jane Salisbury
Eileen Sanchez
Vera Sandronsky
Ruth Saxton
Doreen Scherf
Marguerite Schneider
Elaine Schwartz
Margaret Seidenberg-Ellis
Carol Seitchik
Alice Simpson
Carla Singer
Norma Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Vivian Sorvall
Sb Sowbel (In memoriam joyce i dennison)
Eleanor Spohr
Charlene M. Spretnak
Kat St.Claire
Davney Stahley
Tutt Stapp-McKiernan
Jessica Sterling
Pamela Strousse
Eleanor Swent
Mercedes Terrell
Valerie Thompson
Priscilla Tilley
Deborah Trowbridge
Carole Tyrrell
Barb Valente
Christine Vona
Kathy Wagenknecht
Lorraine Waldau
Monona Wali
Nancie Warner
Judy Wells
Marilyn Westfall
Ernestine Whitman
Margie Wildblood
Mary Alice Williams
Yingchao Xiao
Angela Young
Susan Young
Elizabeth Zimmer
Heather Zorn
Steve Zorn
Marie-Elise Zovko
Anonymous (8 donors)

Aliki Barnstone
Karen Brennan
Mary Burke
Alice Campbell Romano
Barbara Crofford
Louise Dolan
Betti Franceschi
Alice Fulton
Jane Hale
Yolanda Joosten
Debra Kaufman
Barbara Kazdan
Sharon Kennedy
Marianne Kranz
Pamela Kress-Dunn
Sue Leonard
Sara McAulay
Victoria Millard
Mary Kate Owens
Judith Pancoast
Katha Pollitt
Ruth Saxton
Julia Spring
Tutt Stapp-McKiernan
Deborah Trowbridge
Margaret Wagner
Margie Wildblood
Jean Zorn
Steve Zorn