About

Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American writer from Hawaii who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She won First Prize in the Bath Flash Fiction Award, Second Place in the Welkin Mini Prize, and was long-listed for the Wigleaf Top 50. Her stories have been nominated for the Best Small Fictions, Best of the Net, the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Essays, and appear or are forthcoming in Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, Moon City Review, Iron Horse Literary Review PhotoFinish 2024, and more. 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 a novel and a flash-length prose collection based loosely on her experience of parenting queer young adults.