Dawn Bratton

lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she's found a quiet corner to write poetry and prose orbiting the image of eyes and theme of perception. During 2021 - 2023 she served as secretary and vice president on the board of directors for WordSwell literary nonprofit and online journal, where she currently remains as advisor. In 2023, she co-founded Moon Blossom Collective, an arts and wellbeing collective, from which she helped manage Lunar Light and served on the board of directors. In 2025 she founded Karma for supporting the literary and arts communities. Her poetry, essays, and videos have appeared in literary journals like The Bloom, Fjords Review, Oracle, Matter, The Opiate, Modern Literature, The Metaworker, Global Poemic, and Disquiet Arts, among others.