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Biography

My essays have appeared in Oxford American, Psychology Today, The Sun, Bark, The Writer, Fourth Genre, Alaska Quarterly Review, Limehawk Literary Review, Parade.com, WritersDigest.com, and others. I have been a Lifestyle columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 2002, and was the editor of the Chattanooga Jewish Federation magazine, The Shofar. My memoir, The Body Tourist, was published in 2014. My work has been nominated for Best American Essays and a Pushcart. I have been a nonfiction workshop presenter and panelist at Pennsylvania’s Keystone College Literature Conference (The Gathering), the Meacham Writers Conference, and the Chattanooga Writers Guild conference. In 2008, I received a MakeWork Literary Arts grant. A complete list of publications is at Danashavin.com.

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Total articles 72

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  Shavin: When losing your baggage is the best possible outcome

  By Dana Shavin

  Mar. 15, 2025

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  How I'm Keeping the Memory of My Mom Alive in the Face of Alzheimer's

  By Dana Shavin

  Feb. 21, 2025

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  Shavin: My terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

  By Dana Shavin

  Feb. 15, 2025

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