About

Dawna Kemper’s short fiction has appeared in Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Colorado Review, The Idaho Review, The Masters Review, The Florida Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, Shenandoah, The Collagist, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Austin Review, and elsewhere.

Her stories have been Pushcart-nominated, twice listed as “Notable” in The Best American Nonrequired Reading (in 2009 and 2013), and a finalist for the ASME National Magazine / Ellie Awards for fiction. Other work has been selected by Kate Bernheimer for the annual The Masters Review anthology and as finalists for the Bevel Summers Short-Short Story Prize. For two years, she served as a judge for the annual Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and worked with the Santa Monica Review as an editorial assistant.

A native Midwesterner, she has lived for many years in Los Angeles where, in addition to teaching, she works as an editor of fiction and creative non-fiction/memoir.