About

Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American flash writer from Hawaii who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has won both First Prize and Highly Commended in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Second Place in the Welkin Mini, and Finalist in both the Lascaux Review Prize in Flash Fiction and Fractured Lit's Flash Fiction Open.

 

Her stories and non-fiction appear in Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, Moon City Review, The Forge, New World Writing Quarterly, In Short, and River Teeth Beautiful Things, among other places, and have also been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, Best Small Fictions, and an Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color, 2025 (EastOver Press).

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She was a Smokelong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, a StoryStudio Chicago StoryBoard Fellow, a Periplus Fellowship Finalist, and has received support from Storyknife Writer’s Retreat. Currently, she is an Associate Fiction Editor for Pithead Chapel, and is working on two projects: a novel-in-flash that explores the positive and negative impact that communities can have on transgender teens, and an irreverent collection about menopausal women.