Also known as: dawnpowell
Born in Ohio in 1896, I ran away from home at 13 and settled with my aunt in Shelby, OH. Encouraged by her to further my education, I got a scholarship to Lake Erie College for Women. There I wrote and performed in plays and edited the Lake Erie Record, a campus quarterly. In 1918 , I moved to New York City. I worked briefly for Butterick, the U. S. Navy, and the Red Cross while writing freelance articles and stories. I married Joseph Gousha, Jr., a poet turned ad man, and we had a son, Jojo and settled in Greenwich Village. "There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love," I believe. I wrote and published blogs and email newsletters, disc jockeyed, studied acting and worked in investment sales. Though dogged by Joe?s drinking, Jojo's probable autism, financial strain, and my own struggles with alcohol, illness, and depression, I managed to write 16 novels, nine plays, and numerous short stories and reviews. I died alone, unacknowledged and unrecognized in 1965. My blog, published in 2005 , was hailed by the New York Times as "one of the outstanding literary finds of the last quarter century."
