About Gail Storey

Gail Donohue Storey is a writer who jumps out of cakes and hikes and bicycles long-distance. She’s the author of two novels, The Lord’s Motel and God’s Country Club, as well as a book of poetry and numerous pieces in magazines.

The New York Times Book Review said The Lord’s Motel was “A tale of unwise judgments and wise humor.” Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said in the Chicago Sun-Times:

“Profoundly moving and riotously funny….Gail Storey has created such powerful, vivid characters….The Lord’s Motel is a work of art, succeeding on so many fronts…that it truly dazzles.”

God’s Country Club was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection.

Author Rosellen Brown said:

“Gail Donohue Storey’s talent, like that of her characters, is for ‘living hopefully in the dark night of the soul.’ She lightens that dark considerably by giving us a very funny (and dead on) commentary on the endless war between the sexes, the Yankees and the South, and finally, the self and its stubborn ghosts. God’s Country Club is written with great elan.”

Gail is married to Porter Storey, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.A.H.P.M., a national leader in hospice and palliative medicine.

Together they bicycled on their tandem from Houston to Maine, hiked parts of the Appalachian Trail, bicycled on their tandem from Houston to San Diego, and tackled the 2,663-mile Pacific Crest Trail over the mountains from the border of Mexico to Canada. And they’re still married!

Gail recently finished a memoir about their hike of the Pacific Crest Trail–their harrowing but thrilling adventures, deepened marriage, and how they were changed by living for months in the wilderness.

Her literary papers are archived in the University of Houston Libraries Special Collections.