About Me
Dawn LeFevre began her writing journey as a heavy metal album reviewer and music journalist. After graduating from Cook College of Rutgers University with a B.S. in Animal Science, she spent the next thirteen years training and racing Thoroughbred horses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. During that time, she met and eventually married Mark, her guitar instructor.
Dawn’s first novel, BACKSTRETCH GIRLS, won Best Horse Racing Fiction book at the 2021 Equus Film & Arts Festival. Her second novel, RACETRACK ROGUES, was a finalist for the 2021 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award.
Dawn's work has been published in PastTheWire, Equus, Weird NJ, the Pacific Coast Journal and The Press of Atlantic City. Still a huge heavy metal fan, Dawn lives in South Jersey with her husband Mark, her Australian Shepherd Domino and her 2 cats, Wonder and Silver Sable.
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My Features for PASTTHEWIRE.COM
Should Horse Racing Be a Sport of Only Kings
Roamer: The Mistake That Became a Champion
The Dwyer Stakes: The Story of a Gentleman, a Degenerate Gambler and a Historic Horse Race
What happens when you change a Triple Crown?
A Look Back at the 1992 Triple Crown with History-Making Trainer Shelley Riley
The Great Horse Swap Scandal of 1977
Two-Year-Old Kentucky Derby Winners
A Fond Look Back at the WOR-TV Racing Show
Are Super Trainers Stomping Out the Small-Timers
Whatever Happened to the Marlboro Cup
Racinos: Horse Racing's Salvation or Death Knoll
The day that the Belmont Stakes and New York Horse Racing died
Havre de Grace: The Story of a Small Town, a Racetrack, and The Mob
Racing's Bargain Basement Champions
The Small Superstars of Racing
Beloved Bad Boys of Horse Racing
A Bizarre Preakness and The Youngest Jockey To Ever Win One
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Dahlia: The Globe-Trotting Queen of the Turf
Davona Dale:The Double Triple Crown Winner
The Cinderella Horse Is No Fairytale
Ode to Atlantic City Racecourse
Remembering Walter Medio, the King of A.C.