Dominique in her winter home, Puerto Vallarta

Bio

Dominique Bretin, has written a generational novel, When Angels Vanish, and two short stories that are published in two University of Washington Anthologies. Green Lake Man, a COVID-inspired flash fiction is published in Bright Flash Literary Review. She was raised in Bordeaux, France and spent her adolescent years in southern Italy. Being a precocious reader helped her learn the English language. Her early favorites were Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, and Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden. Current authors she follows are Carol Shields, Alice Hoffman, Wally Lamb, Alice Munro, and her favorite, T.C. Boyle. She worked as a clothing designer in New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco, but now resides in Seattle with her family. She studied writing at Stanford with Lynn Stegner and earned two certificates from the University of Washington in Literary Fiction.

Email: sewbret@gmail.com