Dana Killion

Growing up in Wisconsin, Dana Killion developed a curiosity for the world beyond the confines of small-town life. Her thirst for more exhilarating pastures led to a career in the apparel industry, and, eventually, to her love of story: First with fiction, then with memoir, as life in the turmoil of an addictive marriage became a situation where the only way through was to write.As she wrote, the themes in her personal trauma became clear and loud and screamed for attention. But Dana's traumas continued, culminating with the death of her oldest son. And she did what she had learned to do: She used her trauma, and the writing of it, to work through her pain. In the process, she realized she had become unbreakable. She knew what to do. She could revisit the steps she'd taken in her own reinvention, and she could identify and describe the work. She had a process that got her to unbreakable.Dana currently splits her time between Chicago, Illinois, and Tucson, Arizona, with her kitty, Isabel, happily avoiding snow and awaiting her next adventure.