Dawn C Crouch

Author

I’m from New Orleans, where ghosts and devils are part of everyday life, so it is only natural that I write fiction and nonfiction based on true stories.
I have always wanted to be a writer, and I am the author of four nonfiction and three fiction books so far…

A truth that I always remember... Life can change in an instant. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina obliterated my family’s home and all our belongings in a single Monday morning. I was blown along with my family from Gulfport, MS, to Huntsville, AL. We survived the storm, but the arduous task of rebuilding our lives almost did us in. Lesson learned. Things can always be worse!

My first novel, Against The Wind, a YA coming-of-age catastrophe thriller, is based on our encounter with the storm.

The Last Plague is a sci-fi dystopian glance into a near future where medicine runs amok with bioengineered clones, weaponized viruses, and a forbidden love story. I wrote the novel before Covid, but the eerie undertone of the prescient tale resonates with the current pandemic.

Dead Children’s Playground takes its title from a hidden playground in Huntsville and a Rocket City urban legend. Huntsville is a beautiful and strange place where in the early 60s, rural Appalachia collided with Nazi Germany. I’ve visited the playground many times.

My writing will always be peppered with true stories from my convoluted, crazy, and unique life as a daughter, wife, mother, dancer, teacher... person.