Dawn Kurtagich (born ) is a psychological horror and young adult fiction author. She lives in

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

though she grew up in a number of places around the world, including mostly within

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

. Her mother was single and a globe trotter and missionary. Kurtagich was born in the late 1980s. In 2011 she was ill with liver failure recovering after a transplant, and she used that and her experience of someone she knew who had

Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder (DID), better known as multiple personality disorder or multiple personality syndrome, is a mental disorder characterized by the presence of at least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states. The di ...

to write her first novel. That novel is described as

Young Adult fiction Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...

but reviewers firmly place it as something for over fifteens. A companion novella was produced to go with her first novel.

Bibliography

*The Dead House *And the Trees Crept In *Teeth in the Mist *The Creeper Man

References and sources

Living people British women novelists 1980s births Welsh writers British horror writers Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub