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Dawn Turzio, award-winning writer and former Howard Stern intern, is armed with an interesting insider background to all things FDNY, NYPD, USMC, the Navy, and the Army. Dawn’s essay, “A Year After Hurricane Sandy, A First Responder’s Wife Reflects,” was selected as the feature story for the national firefighter magazine, New York Firefighters Now, where her family was photographed for the issue’s cover. Her work has also gained exposure from the television show, Inside Edition, who contacted her for an episode about women’s dating preferences based on an article she’d written titled, “Why are Women Attracted to Men in Uniform?” published by YourTango.com.
Dawn's writing has garnered awards from various organizations including Amazon, The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Catapult Literary, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Tin House Literary previously invited Dawn to their Brooklyn headquarters to engage in craft intensives based on her promising work, which has been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Salon, MSN Lifestyle, Yahoo! News, Parents Magazine, Brain, Child Magazine, The Good Men Project, Entropy Magazine, Hello Giggles, New York Press, New York Firefighters Now, WittyBitches.com, Skinny Dip City, Cupid’s Pulse, The Write Life, and The Staten Island Advance. She spearheaded a feature column Fire Wives, which detailed the implications of "uniformed living" in Jersey Firefighters Now Magazine, where she also contributed to Across the River, a section that reported on firefighting in New York City.
As the first woman to graduate from the television and film studies program at St. John's University, Staten Island campus, Dawn's experience includes working in production for E! Entertainment Television on The Howard Stern Show, AJ Afterhours, and E! News Daily, which has been recognized by The New York Times.
Her novel, F.D.N. Wives, was released worldwide on October 24, 2022, by The Wild Rose Press, Inc.
Dawn's writing has garnered awards from various organizations including Amazon, The American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Catapult Literary, and The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Tin House Literary previously invited Dawn to their Brooklyn headquarters to engage in craft intensives based on her promising work, which has been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Salon, MSN Lifestyle, Yahoo! News, Parents Magazine, Brain, Child Magazine, The Good Men Project, Entropy Magazine, Hello Giggles, New York Press, New York Firefighters Now, WittyBitches.com, Skinny Dip City, Cupid’s Pulse, The Write Life, and The Staten Island Advance. She spearheaded a feature column Fire Wives, which detailed the implications of "uniformed living" in Jersey Firefighters Now Magazine, where she also contributed to Across the River, a section that reported on firefighting in New York City.
As the first woman to graduate from the television and film studies program at St. John's University, Staten Island campus, Dawn's experience includes working in production for E! Entertainment Television on The Howard Stern Show, AJ Afterhours, and E! News Daily, which has been recognized by The New York Times.
Her novel, F.D.N. Wives, was released worldwide on October 24, 2022, by The Wild Rose Press, Inc.