The Garden of Eden, about people living with schizophrenia, was published by the Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery at Syracuse University in 1997.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center published Dona Ann McAdams: Performative Acts in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition that toured to five Vermont venues, 2019-2021.
McAdams's work features prominently in José Esteban Muñoz's Disidentifications (1999), and is also included in such recent books as Tim Miller's The Body in the O (2019), Matthew Riemer & Leighton Brown's We Are Everywhere (2019), and Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show (2021).
Her other work, documentary in nature, ranges widely and includes eclectic subjects such as: thoroughbred horse racing, Appalachia farmers, a community of schizophrenics living on Coney Island, and cloistered nuns.
In 2018, the Sendak Fellowship received an Angel award from the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art for fostering young illustrators and writers and providing them with incredible creative opportunities.
McAdams has collaborated with and is married to Brad Kessler, American author of Lick Creek, Birds in Fall, Goat Song, and North.