Dawn Baumann
Brunke is a writer who specializes in the areas of healing,
metaphysics and spirituality. She has published over three dozen interviews,
including talks with natural medicine writer Dr. Andrew Weil; former NASA
consultant Richard Hoagland; noted speakers Gregg Braden, Patricia Sun and Caroline
Myss; and many animal communicators.
In
addition to Animal Voices, Dawn is the
author of Who Lives Here?, a series
of animal and nature books for children. She
has published short stories in LadyBug (for children), Leviathan (anthology),
and Rosebud
(literary quarterly), and has won both Grand Prize
and Editor’s Choice
in the 1997 and 1998 Alaska
Daily News/University of Anchorage creative writing contest. She has also published book
reviews and nonfiction articles on a variety of subjects,
and contributed to a book series regarding the healing benefits of
essential oils.
For the past six
years, Dawn has been the Editor of Alaska
Wellness, a bi-monthly magazine focused on health and wellness
for the body, mind and spirit.
Dawn
graduated from Lawrence University,
summa cum laude, in 1981. Her
B.A. is in Comparative Religions and Symbolic Anthropology.
She also has a degree in Massage Therapy from the Potomac
Massage Training Institute, where she taught Anatomy and Kinesiology for
several years.
Dawn
lives with the wild man Bob Brunke, their wonderful daughter Alyeska, two great
dogs Max and Zak, and other animals in Wasilla, Alaska.
