ANNOUNCEMENT: My latest novel, Give Me Shelter, is now available!

Contact me at: dseaburn@gmail.com

Give Me Shelter is my ninth novel. The others are: Broken Pieces of God (2021), Gavin Goode (2019), Parrot Talk (2017); More More Time (2015); Chimney Bluffs (2012); Charlie No Face (2011); Pumpkin Hill (2007); and Darkness is as Light (2005).

A little about myself. I have been a country preacher, a community mental health therapist, an academic family psychologist working in a medical center and a director of a counseling center in a public school setting. In 2010 I retired.

I was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center for almost twenty years. During my tenure there I taught in a Family Medicine Residency Program, practiced family therapy and was the Director of a Family Therapy Training Program. My primary interest was working with families dealing with illness and developing partnership between mental health professionals and medical professionals.

I am also an ordained Presbyterian minister. I graduated from seminary (Boston University) in 1975. I served a church full-time from 1975-1981 before entering the mental health field permanently. Initially I worked in community mental health before going to the University of Rochester Medical Center.

My educational background includes two master's degrees and a PhD.

I started writing seriously in seminary. But it wasn't until I entered academics that I wrote in a disciplined manner. During my career at U of Rochester Med Ctr, I co-authored two professional books and over 65 papers and book chapters. I also wrote creative nonfiction and personal essays.

It wasn't until 2001 that I started writing fiction. My first novel, Darkness is as Light, came out in 2005. I have written six additional novels since then.

I also write a blog, "Going Out Not Knowing," for Psychology Today magazine (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/going-out-not-knowing).

I am a writing instructor at Writers and Books in Rochester, NY. (wab.org). Visit me at: