Dawn Newton

Dawn Newton

Dawn Newton is the author of Winded: A Memoir in Four Stages, which details her journey with stage IV lung cancer and the soon-to-be released novel, The Remnants of Summer. She trained as a fiction writer and received scholarships to attend Michigan State University and Johns Hopkins University. Dawn has taught composition and creative writing at several colleges and in K-12 classrooms in Virginia and Michigan. Her essays, poems, and short stories have been published in various literary magazines. She has three grown children -- Rachel, Connor, and Nathaniel -- and lives with her husband, Tim Dalton, and their dog, Clover, in East Lansing, Michigan.