Dana Fredsti
Dana Fredsti is a multi-published novelist with a background in acting, stunts, event planning, office management, and feline rescue. Her love of history is reflected in her writing. She served on the board of Sisters in Crime NorCal for several years, as chapter President and events planner. She was the marketing & events coordinator for the Clarke Historical Museum from March 2020 through September 2023, retiring to do some traveling and devote more time to her writing. She then joined the Clarke Board in 2025, volunteering to help coordinate A Very Victorian Tea and Tarot. She had so much fun doing this that she stepped off the board and returned to her former position at the museum, which she considers her home away from home. She is still writing and has a new fantasy novel coming out in December 2025, cowritten with her husband, David Fitzgerald.
Through ten plus years of volunteering at Exotic Feline Breeding Facility/Feline Conservation Center, Dana’s had a full-grown leopard sit on her feet, been kissed by tigers, held baby jaguars and had her thumb sucked by an ocelot with nursing issues. Dana was also co-writer/associate producer of Urban Rescuers, a documentary on feral cats and TNR (Trap/Neuter/Return), which won Best Documentary at the 2003 Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles. She and David relocated from San Francisco in 2020 (right before the pandemic) and share their beautiful—and drafty—Victorian house with a small horde of felines and their dog, Clarke canine Pogeen. Dana’s hobbies include reading, crafting things out of driftwood and beach glass, and exploring nature.
Through ten plus years of volunteering at Exotic Feline Breeding Facility/Feline Conservation Center, Dana’s had a full-grown leopard sit on her feet, been kissed by tigers, held baby jaguars and had her thumb sucked by an ocelot with nursing issues. Dana was also co-writer/associate producer of Urban Rescuers, a documentary on feral cats and TNR (Trap/Neuter/Return), which won Best Documentary at the 2003 Valley Film Festival in Los Angeles. She and David relocated from San Francisco in 2020 (right before the pandemic) and share their beautiful—and drafty—Victorian house with a small horde of felines and their dog, Clarke canine Pogeen. Dana’s hobbies include reading, crafting things out of driftwood and beach glass, and exploring nature.