Dawn Downey writes personal essays about her journey through everyday life. She is the author of Blindsided, Searching for My Heart, From Dawn to Daylight, and Stumbling Toward the Buddha. Her publishing career began with an article in The Christian Science Monitor. Since then, her essays have been featured in literary journals, magazines, and newspapers. Maintaining relationships with her readers, she blogs weekly and hosts Author-on-Demand private video readings. And there's usually a reflective conversation running on her Facebook page. She protects her writing time by deploying an app that blocks the internet from her laptop. (She cheats by checking her phone.) Downey lives with her husband in Kansas City, Missouri.