Dana Rodney/ BIO
Dana was born in Westchester, New York in 1962. The majority of her professional career was in the design industry. For most of her adult life, Dana was a single mother and small business owner in California’s Napa Valley.
Dana began writing seriously in 2018, motivated by the loss of her home in a California wildfire. Tragically, she lost a second home to another wildfire in 2020. As a result of losing her life’s possessions, Dana started a short story based on the idea that objects hold memory. She kept writing until her first novel was completed—One Extraordinary Thing. Another completed Climate Fiction novel is titled The Last Polar Bear.
Dana has won awards in the 2019 S.M. Keats Literary Contest in San Francisco and the 2020 and 2021 Jessamyn West Writing Contest and has published in writer’s anthologies.