Dawna Kemper lives on the northwestern edge of Los Angeles with a view of the Simi Hills and the howls of  local coyotes slipping into her dreams. Her short fiction has appeared in Ecotone, The Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Colorado Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Idaho Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, and The Collagist, among other journals, and her stories have twice been listed as Notable in The Best American Nonrequired Reading and listed as a finalist for the Ellie/ASME/National Magazine Awards. She earned her M.F.A. at Antioch University, Los Angeles. For several years she was on the editorial staff of the Santa Monica Review, and served for two years as a judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In addition to teaching, she works as a freelance editor of fiction and creative nonfiction/memoir, and co-curates/hosts the reading series Say the Word at the Venice Public Library. She also, occasionally, makes art. 

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