Dawn Colclasure started writing at a young age and ever since has a collection of hundreds of poems, songs, essays, articles and short stories. She founded a poetry club while in her teens, where she also edited and published their quarterly magazine, and had poetry published in anthologies and various magazines. She entered the professional writing world while in college, writing for her local newspaper while also working in the college newspaper department, then taking on a writing gig for a weekly webzine. From there she wrote her first novel then moved on to freelance writing, writing for magazines and E-zines. This led to joining the writing team for the newspaper for the deaf, SIGNews, and she has also written about ghosts and hauntings for the Shadowlands site.