Donna Wyszomierski, a native of Pittsburgh, PA is a longtime resident of Buffalo, NY. Her collection of stories, Bad Mayonnaise, was published by the Buffalo Ochre papers in association with Yellow Field in Buffalo in 2012. Two previous collections of her stories were published through the prose periodical Top Stories; Too Good to Be Entirely True (1979; reprinted 1981), and Forget About Your Father (1983).