--- title: About --- [Go Back Up](https://damurrayofficial.com/about#top) [Skip to Content](https://damurrayofficial.com/about#body) ## D. A. Murray Toggle Menu - [Home](https://damurrayofficial.com) - [Dominion](https://damurrayofficial.com/dominion) Toggle children for Dominion Main Menu (Press to Return) \> Dominion - [Characters](https://damurrayofficial.com/characters) - [Companion](https://damurrayofficial.com/companion) - [Book Clubs](https://damurrayofficial.com/book-club-kit) - [Events](https://damurrayofficial.com/events) - [About D.A.Murray](https://damurrayofficial.com/about) - [Blog](https://damurrayofficial.com/blog) - [Subscribe](https://damurrayofficial.com/email-capture) - [Contact](https://damurrayofficial.com/contact) ![\_leaning on structure in park](https://damurrayofficial.com/hs-fs/hubfs/_leaning%20on%20structure%20in%20park.jpg?width=5760&height=3840&name=_leaning%20on%20structure%20in%20park.jpg) AVAILABLE NOW! # DOMINION IS THE FIRST OF MANY STORIES. Dominique Murray was born and raised in California. She studied Economics and Japanese at the University of California, Los Angeles. She began writing her debut novel during Covid. When she’s not writing, she is working in the tech industry or doing Hot Pilates. Dominique creates content that uplifts and celebrates the female spirit. - [mailto:info@damurrayofficial.com](mailto:info@damurrayofficial.com) ## About D. A. Murray Dominique Murray is an author, entrepreneur, and advocate whose work explores the courage it takes to define yourself beyond the roles others assign you. Her debut novel, *Dominion: Ascension*, begins a body of work centered on resilience, identity, power, and the idea that adversity can become a teacher rather than a limitation. Raised by a strong-willed mother, Dominique spent much of her early life learning to separate her own voice from the expectations around her. The journey toward becoming her own woman was not without cost, but it shaped her belief that meaningful choices often require sacrifice—and that duty, integrity, and personal fulfillment must sometimes be held in difficult balance. In college, she began shedding the feelings of inadequacy that had followed her for years. She found purpose in service: tutoring high school students, mentoring disadvantaged women in marginalized communities, volunteering with the Boys & Girls Club of America, serving as a career counselor, supporting her church community at Soul City, and becoming a foster care provider. Those experiences deepened her commitment to helping others recognize their own potential. As her professional career grew, Dominique redirected her creative energy into business writing, leadership, and entrepreneurship, eventually founding a skin technology company. Although she thrived in innovative, creative environments, she continued to feel drawn toward a more personal form of expression. After two decades of pursuing conventional definitions of success, she returned to writing—taking classes, refining her craft, and reclaiming her authentic voice. Through fiction, Dominique invites readers to question inherited systems, confront the price of conformity, and imagine futures shaped by truth, compassion, and self-determination. *Dominion: Ascension* is the first of many stories she plans to write for readers who believe success is not a fixed destination, but a moving target each person has the right to define for themselves. [Download D. A. Murray's Tip Sheet](https://damurrayofficial.com/hubfs/Dominion_Tip%20%20Sheet.pdf?hsLang=en) [Download D. A. 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