She received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for "examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid."

[2] As a child, Dominick would retrieve her sisters needles from the trash and use them as squirt guns,[2] until she herself was diagnosed with the disease at the age of nine.

[1] Dominick attended and graduated from Iowa State University in 1994, and earned her Master's degree in literature and creative writing three years later.

[3] She began writing this book after her older sister died[2] of a heart attack, cocaine, and diabetes abuse.

[6] She would later win the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for "examining the damaging consequences for poor Iowa residents of privatizing the state’s administration of Medicaid.