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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 and Second Place in the Welkin Mini Prize. Her stories have been chosen for the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, Best Small Fictions (2025) and appear in various anthologies and literary magazines: Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, Atlas and Alice, In Short Journal, Moon City Review, The Forge, 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 working on a novel-in-flash that explores the impact, both negative and positive, that communities can potentially have on transgender teens.

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