Dawna Kemper’s fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, The Collagist, The Idaho Review, Santa Monica Review, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Her stories have been Pushcart-nominated and twice listed as “Notable” in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. For two years, she served as a judge for the annual Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and has also worked as chief editorial assistant at Santa Monica Review