[1] A writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dawn published her debut novel Sub Rosa in 2010.

[2] In 2013 she released a new book of essays and poems entitled How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir.

[5] Dawn was also an editor of the anthology Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire, a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2009, and co-editor with Trish Kelly of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn.

[1] Dawn was director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for four years, ending in 2012.

[7] She served alongside Vivek Shraya and Anne Fleming on the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury in 2013, selecting C. E. Gatchalian as that year's winner.