Morgan Dawn

Morgan Dawn is a multi-media fan who loves sci-fi and fantasy. She has been involved in reading and writing both gen and slash fanfiction since 1994. 
She has written numerous short stories and a novella in Due South, The Professionals, Starsky & Hutch and Supernatural fandoms. She has also been making amateur music videos since the mid-1990s. Her stories and her vids can be found on her website: http://www.morgandawn.com
She is a premier authority on fandom history and preservation, organizing multiple projects to rescue and preserve zines, oral histories, and digital materials.
She has donated two collections to the Fan Culture Preservation Project via the Organization for Transformative Works at the University of Iowa Libraries: the Morgan Dawn Fanzine and Fanvid Collection and the Morgan Dawn “The Professionals” Circuit Library and Fanzine Collection.
In 2018, she published an interactive article about the as part of the online vidding fanzine Videlicet.
In her spare time, Morgan Dawn enjoys attending the Galaxy's largest swap meet and drinking heavily at the hotel Overlook.
==Chronology==
*1993 (or earlier) buys her first fanzine. She later remarked: "I thought it had to do with exploring the underpinnings of early slavery in pre-Columbian America. Dealers should really offer better labeling."
* 1993 joins the Virgule Mailing List, the first slash mailing list on the internet.
* 1995 creates her first songvid which can be found here 
* 1995 publishes her first slash story "The Two Trees" (The Professionals) as part of Manacles Press, a fanzine publisher. The story can be found here 
* 1995 becomes co-list admin of the Virgule Mailing List, the first slash mailing list.
* 2002 publishes her first slash novel: "The Long Way Home" Due South via Kathy Resch, a fanzine publisher, which can be found here
* 2003 helps Gayle F remaster her vid Data's Dream. A streaming copy can be found here.
* 2004 begins volunteering to help run the Bascon vid show; ends in 2007.
* 2005? begins co-moderating the Vidding (Livejournal community) with bonibaru
*2007 creates and moderates the iMeem vidding forum, along with tutorials to assist vidders transitioning to a more public display of their vids
*2003?-2010 begins compiling vid show playlists with online links for fans who cannot attend conventions. Among the conventions: Escapade, Vividcon, Bascon and MediaWest. This is in response to the gradual shift away from convention vid shows as the main method for vidders to display their vids.
*2007-2010 begins working with par avion on the Veni Vidi Vids, the meta vidding newsletter, to help disseminate trends in copyright law that might impact vidders. The Meta newsletter also offers vidders a centralized list of meta discussions on vidding taking place on Livejournal along with technical vidding questions and solutions.
*2009-? Fanlore Work, focus on fanzines, conventions and vidding
*2012-? Media Fandom Oral History Project
*2013 - ? Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection
*2013- Contributed cover art to Fandom: it was love at first sight
*Fanzine Archives
==Interviews==
* Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Morgan Dawn (2012)
==Notable Works==
===Vids===
*Flying Home (Due South).
*Ghost (Doctor Who vid)
*Testify (Starsky & Hutch)
* One Step Up (Starsky & Hutch)
*God Says Nothing Back (Supernatural)
*Hotel California - a satirical Supernatural vid.
===Fiction===
*Snapshots (Starsky and Hutch story)
*The Long Way Home (Due South)
*"The Two Trees" (The Professionals). 
*"Hide and Seek" (Professionals):
*"Between Dreams We Lie Awake" (Professionals):
*In His Father's Shoes (Star Wars)
==Meta==
* User:MeeDee/Assume Good Faith (2012)
==References==
BLERGH!!
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