Publications
SELECTED STORIES
2025
Fiction Collection - Mythic Picnic TweetStory
* forthcoming
Bully - The Woolf
* forthcoming
Girl, you ain't missing nothing - Gooseberry Pie, 2nd Annual Writing Contest, Honorable Mention
* forthcoming
The Election Goes Badly - The Forge
Lepidoptera - Moon City Review 2025 (print only)
What they don't understand is, getting used to the pronouns is the hardest part - MoonPark Review
Bra Shopping - In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
2024
Afternoon Nap - Iron Horse Literary Review PhotoFinish 2024
So Tightly Wound - Atlas + Alice
You Stupid Kid - Roi Fainéant Press
Triple-Digit Fire Weather - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
Nothing Is Wrong with Him - Emerge Literary Journal
Mom gets me a dog for my ninth birthday because she says all kids should have a dog - Fractured Lit
Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Long List
Rules Keep You Safe - BULL
Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Long List
The Blue Frog, Finalist
The Masters Review 2023 Spring Small Fiction Awards, Short List
Somewhere Else Better - Anti-Heroin Chic
Clean Floors - The Welkin Writing Prize
The Welkin Mini, Second Place
Nominated for The Pushcart Prize
2023
I’m trying but it’s really hard - Ghost Parachute
Détente - Bath Flash Fiction Award
Bath Flash Fiction Award, First Prize winner
Nominated for Best Small Fictions
Unmentionables - Stanchion
Nominated for Best Small Fictions
How to Survive a Black Hole - Pithead Chapel
2024 Wigleaf Top 50, Long List
The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories: writers of color 2025 - EastOver Press
Thorns - MicroLit Almanac
Nominated for Best American Essays and The Pushcart Prize
Sometimes she wishes he was dead, but then she’d miss him - Flash Frog
Smokelong Quarterly Workshop Prize, Finalist
Nominated for Best Small Fictions
Why you drive seven hours up to Yreka to check up on your little sister after she moved there with your Mom - Milk Candy Review
Alone on Your Kid’s Birthday - Many Nice Donkeys
Nominated for Best of the Net
Survival Instinct - SoFloPoJo
2022
Crossing the Limen - Heimat Review
INTERVIEWS
Author Interview with Dawn Tasaka Steffler - The Forge
Q&A with Dawn Tasaka Steffler, October 2023 First Prize Winner - Bath Flash Fiction Award
Judge’s Report, October 2023 - Bath Flash Fiction Award
Two Questions for Dawn Tasaka Steffler - Milk Candy Review
ANTHOLOGIES
The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories: writers of color 2025 - EastOver Press
* forthcoming
The Weather Where You Are - Bath Flash Fiction Volume Eight
FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Storyknife Writers Retreat, April 2024
StoryStudio Chicago, StoryBoard Workshop Fellow 2023
Smokelong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers 2023
Periplus Fellowship, Finalist 2022
READINGS
FBOMB Global Flash Reading, February 2025
Live From Storyknife reading series, April 2024