NEW BOOKS COMING SOON
A Green Glow on the Horizon: Tales from the National Association of Tourist Attraction Survivors
March 2026, Cornerstone Press
“How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there?
“A singular collection of creative nonfiction, Lingering Inland plumbs the personal and collective essence that binds Midwesterners together through words and places.”
“The thirty-three writers in this collection grapple with the vastness of the lakes and the vastness of experience living alongside them….
Come dive for shipwrecks, harvest manoomin, and visit the disappearing ice caves. Witness the chickadees, smelt, and cattails, but also zebra mussels, factory runoff, and algae. Each writer’s relationship with the lakes is personal and unique, but that relationship to the water is also one shared by so many of us.”
Evangelina Everyday
Available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats
ABOUT ME
I am a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction, a collector of Beautiful Things, a watcher of sunrises, a connector of people, and an all-around creative.
I am fascinated and driven by people’s stories and passions, and by life’s particularities and peculiarities.
In everything I do, my desire is always to go deeper in some unexpected way, to observe from the corner of my eye and follow where my eye/mind/heart wanders in service of the story that needs to be told.
I’m glad you’re here!
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DAWN BURNS
“With delicious humor and a masterful perception of the strangeness of the human condition, Dawn Burns writes characters you will never forget.”
Cait West
author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy
“Through masterful narrative, Burns carries us all into the imaginative realm with humor and compassion that honors community and human complexity.”
Bonnie Jo Campbell
National Book Award finalist and author of The Waters
“Wryly funny and heart-twisting.”
Colleen Alles
author of Close to a Flame: Stories
“Burns is a master of offbeat stories . . . dazzling in its balance of esoteric fun and serious content.”
Mary Catherine Harper
author of Some Gods Don’t Need Saints
“Dawn Burns spins a tale that leaps from lyricism to bitter and back again.”
Randy Susan Meyers
author of Waisted
“Quirky, funny, heart-wrenching, and hopeful. A perfect combination!”
J.R. Jamison
author of Hillbilly Queer and host of the NPR podcast The Facing Project
“At the crossroads of Sublime and Surreal.”
Michael Martone
author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana
“Dawn Burns writes interiority with a talent that can fill a moment—any moment—with unbound wonder.”
Curtis VanDonkelaar
author of Bad Man Love Stories and editor of The Offbeat
“Dawn Burns holds the satirical and the affectionate in perfect balance. . . . wildly inventive, serenely wise, and delightfully zany.”
Valerie Sayers
author of The Age of Infidelity
“Dawn Burns gives voice to marginals: kids we grew up with and never really knew yet we see every time we look in the mirror.”
Jan Maher
author of Earth As It Is, and Heaven, Indiana
“Evangelina Everyday is an invitation to hope – to hope that what is bound can become free.”
Dave Ebenbach
author of Miss Portland and How to Mars
Dawn Burns 