About the Author

Dawn has been writing ever since she can remember. From stories about bears lurking in the woods to her current endeavor (Out of Nothing), words have been one way that Dawn has made sense of her world.

In junior high, bears gave way to elves and dwarves, and Dawn convinced the shy boy in her music class to illustrate her stories.

A few years later, taking a cue from her grandfather and spending her writing sessions at McDonald's, she tried her hand at a novel about witches.

Through it all, other people's words became her life, and she remembers taking notes of words, phrases, and quotations that resonated with her. Her writing notebook included Sherlock Holmes voicing, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." She also wrote down Latin verb conjugations, hoping she'd get to take Latin in high school or college. She never did.

Her deepest desire was to be an author, and in 2007, Dawn started outlining Out of Nothing. The entire process of writing this novel has been heart-wrenching, yet, as with many stories, it wouldn't be satisfied until it was brought out into the light.

What you might want to know about Dawn

She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a minor in business administration.

She was awarded honors in the following societies and programs:

• Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
• Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society
• Golden Key National Honor Society
• University Honors Program, SMU

Dawn has been volunteering and working with people in some capacity of teaching writing and the English language since the early 1990s:

• Volunteer for LIFT (Literacy Instruction For Texas)
• English teacher at Austin Junior High, Irving, Texas
• English-as-a-second-language teacher at LADO International College
• Business owner with Virtual Angel, helping her clients with all writing projects and issues imaginable
• Founder and owner of Write Well U, creating and delivering programs to help people become stronger writers

Dawn's Blog

Write Well Me is her personal journey through words. Not only does Dawn see the world in words, she uses words to understand her journey through life. Join her on her journey.