
DONNA M. GRAY-BANKS
F.R.E.S.H. BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDER
MISSION: TO BUILD A LITERACY LEGACY

Donna M. Gray-Banks is the Founder and Director of the F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival (Fiction, Romance, Erotica, Spiritual and Health), one of the largest book festivals for minority and indie self-published authors in Florida. The Festival began in 2011, and the City of Daytona Beach, Florida, began sponsorship of the Festival in 2012.
Gray-Banks is the author of a highly successful suspense erotic trilogy, Ila’s Diamonds I, II, and III, and is currently working on her fourth novel The House That Jack Built. Donna is a guest columnist for Blackmeninamerica.com, the Daytona Times newspaper, and is a book broker.
Gray-Banks is also the Executive Director of the Midtown Community Development Corporation in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is the host of a weekly zoom-cast Zoom In On A F.R.E.S.H. Conversation Monday nights from 8-9 p.m. where she features Black authors and entrepreneurs.
Donna is the proud Mother of Gregory Taylor Banks and resides in the beautiful City of Palm Coast, Florida.
CONTACT INFORMATION
F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival
Bookings and Events for Donna
Midtown Community Development Corporation