Dawn Beutner worked as an engineer before becoming a technical writer. The author of "Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year" and "The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World" (both from Ignatius Press), she blogs about saints at her website and writes about a variety of subjects for  Catholic World Report, and speaks about saints monthly at Archangel Radio in Alabama and "Driving Home the Faith."