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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at YCP chapter.

-Name: Lizz Dawson

-Year: Class of 2016

-Major/Minor: Professional Writing; Creative Writing

-Hometown: York, PA

-Relationship Status: In one

What is your favorite place on campus?: the writing lab (HUM11) or outside of Humanities when it’s nice out!

What is your dream job?: Publishing a book that people actually read; working somewhere alongside other writers

Who is your role model and why?: Any female writer who bears themselves to their audience, and especially Cheryl Strayed and Mary Karr. Tons of other authors. Martin Luther King Jr., always. But also just anyone that is been through some stuff and still comes out kind on the other side.

What is something that you can’t live without?: A notebook, avocados, books, and a good pair of glasses. 

Dog enthusiast, nap queen, coffee (not tea) drinker, I’m a five-year senior at York College of PA with a major in professionla writing and a minor in English literary studies. I spend my time reading, petting my polydactyl cat, Scooby-Doo, and bugging my boyfriend constantly. In the next few years I’ll (hopefully) be hired as an editor for a book publishing company. Right now I have three jobs because I’m a poor college student, but hopefully one day our government will actually work.