J. R. Dawson
J.R. Dawson (she/they) has published shorter works in places such as F&SF, Lightspeed, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. She lives in Omaha with her spouse and three dogs in the middle of a city park. Having earned a BFA from The Theatre School at DePaul and an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast, Dawson works at Nebraska Writers Collective and other Midwestern nonprofits that teach kids the power of performance and storytelling. The First Bright Thing is her first novel.
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The First Bright Thing
- By: J. R. Dawson
- Narrator: Petrea Burchard
- Length: 12 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 13, 2023
- Language: English
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If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?“This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life.”―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway
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