Dawn Hilbert has written short stories, essays, business articles, comics, and novels (since 2004! thanks, NanoWriMo). Some of her writing can be found on the web (samples here, here, here, & here (C&M link). She is a member of the Sisters in Crime, the West Virginia Writers Association and works in a critique group with three other long-form writers.

She writes both contemporary and historical fiction. 

Her contemporary fiction includes three modern-noir mysteries featuring a young woman sleuth in California.

Her historical fiction is set in the US in the mid-19th century (ca. 1850), and spans locations from Delaware to Oregon.

She lives in the Ohio Valley and runs a cute little used bookstore and coffee shop in Huntington, WV.