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Stram is a graduate of Portland State University and Idaho State
University, with degrees in Anthropology. She also holds a doctorate
in Curriculum and Instruction from Boise State University. In a
varied career, she was executive director of the Idaho Council on Domestic
Violence; and was an adjunct professor, teaching anthropology and
criminal justice courses at Boise State University. During her doctoral
studies, she was a research fellow for the US Army Research Institute and
published findings on computers in the classroom and on the history of the
war in the Balkans. More recently, she conducted workshops on teaching
at-risk youth; worked at an alternative mid-high school; researched and
wrote archaeological project reports; and supervised secondary art student
teachers. In retirement, Stram has taken up oil painting and is enjoying
her family. She is married, has four grown children, nine grandchildren,
and four great-grandchildren.
Dawn Stram has been published in small
literary magazines throughout the Northwest,
including Wild Dog, Litmus, Potpourri, Up
th' Tube With One i (open), Pliego, The
Willamette Bridge, Padma: The Matrix
Issue, The Limberlost Review: Special
Fandango Issue, and The Temple/El Templo.
She is author of a poetry chapbook, roots &
wings, published by Wine Press, Portland,
OR; and is included in Pacific Northwestern Spiritual Poetry, Tsunami,
Inc., Walla Walla, WA, edited by Charles Potts. Her book for youth and
adults, Fat Ladies Shouldn't Have Orange Hair, is currently in press
(Xlibris Corp., Bloomington, IN). Stram has read her poetry in Seattle,
Portland, Boise, Grimes Creek, Idaho, and Walla Walla, Washington. She
currently writes from Boise, Idaho.