Dawn DowneyDawn Downey writes essays about her everyday life-introspective stories to lift your spirits and challenge your assumptions. The question she strives to answer: how to be a sensitive elder woman of color in an insensitive, white-centered, male dominaed, youth-oriented culture.With multiple WIPs vying for her attention, she's the author of essay collections Listicles, Blindsided, Searching for My Heart, From Dawn to Daylight, and Stumbling Toward the Buddha. Her publishing career began with a dance review in The Santa Barbara News Press. Since then, her essays have been featured in literary journals, magazines, and newspapers.Connecting with her readers, she blogs twice-weekly and also hosts Dawn's Monthly Author Reading on Zoom.When she's not writing she binge-watches Succession. Downey lives with her husband in Kansas City, Missouri. Read More Read Less