Dawn Dixon

Dawn Dixon (www.dawndixon.net), winner of the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, went on to complete her first series novel, Faux Finished (released June 2021). She’s won short story awards and been published in the anthology, Peace, Love and Crime: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the ’60s. Dawn graduated from UNC Chapel Hill (AB Journalism). She then worked in corporate communications, staying creative by freelancing for local, regional and national rags. Other projects include a memoir, and a kid’s series about a three-pawed dog. She adores writing screenplays. In callow youth, she indulged in really bad poetry. She is a Sisters in Crime member and attends mystery conventions. Her love of crime stories grew from reading her Nana’s true crime magazines. Dawn, hooked on crime ever since, is too chicken to commit one herself. Hence, her fiction. She plans to hunt and gather ancestors in the UK, Ireland, and France, to discover why they left Europe as that’s where she travels. She complains she’d have saved money if they’d stayed put. For now, she sips iced tea and rocks on the front porch in South Carolina’s Low Country where swears lizards and alligators roam.