Dawn Eden is the pen-name for author, editor and music journalist Dawn Eden Goldstein. In the late 1980s and 1990s she was a rock journalist in New York City, including staff writer for The Bob. She later went on to editorial positions for the New York Post and the Daily News.

Born into a Jewish family she later converted to Christianity and is now assistant professor of dogmatic theology at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and is based in Washington, DC.