Dawn Garisch is a medical doctor and award-winning author and poet. She has had seven novels, three poetry collections, a non-fiction work, a short story collection, two children’s books and memoir published. Four novels were published in the UK, including Breaking Milk (Heloise Press, 2024), which was short-listed for the CNA Sunday Times award in South Africa (2021). Her short story collection What Remains (Karavan, 2023) won the NIHSS and the Nadine Gordimer SALA awards in 2024 in that category.
She has had three plays and a short film, Cry Me A Baby, produced, and has written scripts for the TV edudrama Soul City. A founder member of the Life Righting Collective www.liferighting.com, she promotes regular creative practice as key to wellbeing.