Publications
SELECTED STORIES
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2025
Fiction Collection - Mythic Picnic TweetStory
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What they don't understand is, getting used to the pronouns is the hardest part - MoonPark Review
* forthcoming
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Lepidoptera - Moon City Review
* forthcoming
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Bra Shopping - In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction
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2024
Afternoon Nap - Iron Horse Literary Review PhotoFinish 2024
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So Tightly Wound - Atlas + Alice
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You Stupid Kid - Roi Fainéant Press
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Triple-Digit Fire Weather - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine
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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
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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
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Somewhere Else Better - Anti-Heroin Chic
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Clean Floors - The Welkin Writing Prize
The Welkin Mini, Second Place
Nominated for The Pushcart Prize
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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
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
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2022
Crossing the Limen - Heimat Review
INTERVIEWS
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
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ANTHOLOGIES
The Weather Where You Are - Bath Flash Fiction Volume Eight
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FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
Storyknife Writers Retreat, April 2024
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StoryStudio Chicago, StoryBoard Workshop Fellow 2023
Smokelong Quarterly Fellowship for Emerging Writers 2023
Periplus Fellowship, Finalist 2022
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READINGS
FBOMB Global Flash Reading, February 2025
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Live From Storyknife reading series, April 2024
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