NEWFOUNDLAND
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DAWN E NEILL
Dawn is a retired international teacher. She received her teaching degree from the University of Toronto. It took her ten years to complete her degree while juggling a commitment as a single parent to her three children.
Inspired by her two sons and one daughter who traveled the world on tall ships, she set off from the small town of Orillia, Ontario, to explore the world herself.
Over her thirty-year career, she taught in Mexico, the Middle East and Canada’s Arctic. While immersing herself in these diverse cultures, she kept diaries and wrote journals and newsletters – accounts that are full of revealing and sometimes raw details not only about the locals, but about her own struggles and challenges.
These accounts are now manuscripts based on the theme of Journeys: from sea, to sand to snow. Her first book, and first journey that details her life of isolation in Newfoundland, is now available on Amazon.
During her travels, she was interviewed by CBC while living in Newfoundland; and by CNN while living in Kuwait. Some of her writings have appeared in magazines: Contact, Together, Atlantic Advocate, Decks Awash; and three articles were published online with CBC during the war between Iraq and Kuwait.
After two failed relationships, she now resides as a writer on the shores on Lake Simcoe, Ontario, with Wally Beck, a man who is content to be called her partner. He even encourages her to fulfill her bucket list: to write, to visit her grandchildren, and to travel.
MIDDLE EAST
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When Dawn was a young girl, her mother saw her talent with words, and encouraged her to write stories. Everything she wrote went into a collection called Dawn of Composition. When she retired, she set up a writing service business with the same name. From PowerPoint presentations to stories, and letters to essays, please see the list of services offered on her Writer’s website.
ARCTIC
