Contact
- www.dawnstahura.com
- @the_zine_witch_of_salem
Education
- M.L.S., Indiana University Indianapolis (2009)
- A.A.S. Business Management, Ivy Tech College (2006)
- B.A. Creative Writing, Purdue University (2001)
Biography
Dawn Stahura is a Research and Instruction Librarian for the Sciences and Health Sciences and the Zine Librarian at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. She earned her M.L.S. from Indiana University (Indianapolis campus) in 2009, an A.A.S. in Business Management from Ivy Tech Community College in 2006, and a B.A. in Creative Writing from Purdue University in 2001. She is currently enrolled in the MA English (Writing Focus) program at Salem State. She designs and teaches courses through the Library Juice Academy such as Critical Information Literacy and Zines as Critical Reflection and Pedagogy. She leads workshops through the American Library Association on Fighting Back Against Fake News. She has written and published zines since 1992 and sits on the Board of Directors for the Papercut Zine Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She currently helps public libraries along the North Shore in starting their own zine collections as well as how to run zine fests. She is the creator of the ACT UP evaluation method that has been globally adopted and adapted in all kinds of libraries and library instruction. Her research interests are critical creativity, zines as scholarship, holistic teaching, open pedagogy, and participatory literacy. Her first book, Educating with Empathy: A Holistic Framework For Engaging With Research will be published through Litwin Press in 2025.