![]() ![]() She donated one of her kidneys, and elected to do it in a slightly unusual and particularly altruistic way. in creative writing, Dorland did perhaps the kindest, most consequential thing she might ever do in her life. On June 24, 2015, a year after completing her M.F.A. (“I’m compelled at funerals to shake hands with the dusty men who dig our graves,” she has written.) She is known for signing off her emails not with “All best” or “Sincerely,” but “Kindly.” An essayist and aspiring novelist who has taught writing classes in Los Angeles, she is the sort of writer who, in one authorial mission statement, declares her faith in the power of fiction to “share truth,” to heal trauma, to build bridges. Her friends call her a “feeler”: openhearted and eager, pressing to make connections with others even as, in many instances, she feels like an outsider. There is a sunny earnestness to Dawn Dorland, an un-self-conscious openness that endears her to some people and that others have found to be a little extra. ![]()
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