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Dana Shavin

Dana Shavin

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Journalist, Freelance

Chattanooga

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.

Final Covers

food., writing craft travel essay, humor profiles,Creative nonfiction: Personal interest animal welfare

Doesn’t Cover

Politics, religion, crime.

Journalist Type

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Seniority Positions

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Medium Formats

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Content

Total articles 72

  • Shavin: When losing your baggage is the best possible outcome

    By Dana Shavin · Chattanooga Times Free Press

    Mar. 15, 2025

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

    By Dana Shavin · Verywell Mind

    Feb. 21, 2025

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

    By Dana Shavin · Chattanooga Times Free Press

    Feb. 15, 2025

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Company Info

Freelance

De Pere, Wisconsin, United States