Dawn Tasaka Steffler

Dawn Tasaka Steffler is an Asian-American writer from Hawaii who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Smokelong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow, winner of the 2023 Bath Flash Fiction Award, finalist for the 2025 Lascaux Review Prize in Flash Fiction, and selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 long list and Best Small Fictions. Her stories appear in Pithead Chapel, Fractured Lit, Moon City Review, The Forge, Sundog Lit, and more. Find her online at dawntasakasteffler.com and on BlueSky, Instagram and Facebook @dawnsteffler.

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