Dawna Kemper
Dawna Kemper's stories have appeared in Colorado Review, The Florida Review, Quarterly West, Santa Monica Review, The Idaho Review and The Kenyon Review. Her stories have also been nominated for Pushcarts and listed as "Notable" in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009. Her new work is forthcoming in Zyzzyva. For five years she served as editorial assistant at The Santa Monica Review. She has completed a collection of stories and is working on a novel.
Reading List
Trophy
This prized fish on the wall in our suburban split-level is a rainbow trout, an identification I know because my husband made a point of telling me this, more than once, when he brought the fish home from the lake. …
Translator
In the ninth summer of the conflict, I was hired as a translator for a foreign officer. My wife was furious. For days, she refused to speak to me other than mumbling That man is the devil even though she’d …