Rita Dragonette is a writer who, after a career telling the stories of others as an award-winning public relations executive, returned to her original creative path as a novelist, essayist, and literary salonnière. Her debut novel, The Fourteenth of September (She Writes Press, 2018), is based upon her personal experiences on campus during the Vietnam War. It has won more than 11 awards, in the areas of historical, literary, women’s, and new fiction. Her second novel, Last Sunset in San Miguel (Greenleaf Book Group, 2027), is an echo to The Sun Also Rises about expats chasing their last dreams in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

She is currently working on Violating the Prime Directive, a memoir in essays about roads not taken, and the Substack, Thinkin’Bout My Generation. She lives and writes in Chicago, where she hosts literary salons supporting a variety of organizations and showcasing authors and their new books to avid readers.