Dawn Friedman

I am a clinical mental health counselor and a writer.

My work has appeared in many publications including but not limited to:

• Salon.com (where my essay was chosen as an Editor’s Pick for 2006);
• Brain Child (my essay “You’re Not the Boss of Me” was reprinted in both Utne and Ode; my article Weighing Down Our Kids was also reprinted in Utne);
• Huffington Post,
• Parenting,
• Yoga Journal,
• Wondertime,
• Adoptive Families,
• Bitch: A Feminist Response to Pop Culture,
• Shaerable and
• Greater Good.

My essays appear in Joanne Bombarger’s Mother’s of Intention (Bright Sky Press, 2011), Rebecca Walker’s anthology One Big Happy Family (Riverhead Press, 2009), Mothering and Blogging (Demeter Press, 2009) edited by May Friedman & Shana L. Calixte and the textbooks Child Adoption: Issues and Perspectives (Icfai University Press, 2009) and Mixed Heritage (Greenhaven Press, 2009).