Donna M. Gray-Banks is the Founder and Director of the F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival which is one of the largest book festivals held in Volusia/Flagler Counties in Florida. The Festival began in 2011 and the City of Daytona Beach began sponsorship of the Festival in 2012. Gray-Banks is also the host of a weekly radio show "A F.R.E.S.H. Conversation" on Joy 106.3 fm Daytona Beach, every Monday night from 8-9 p.m. Gray-Banks is the author of a very successful trilogy, "Ila's Diamonds I, II, and III". She is currently working on her IV novel "The House That Jack Built".