Dawn Parker earned her Bachelor's in English Creative Writing from California State University Fresno, graduating Summa Cum Laude in three years. She is the winner of the 2025 Larry Levis Poetry Prize and the 2025 Fresno Fiction Undergraduate Prize.  Dawn has poems and stories published or forthcoming in Poets.org, Vellichor Literary Magazine, Abundance Literary Journal, 50 Word Stories, hais: a literary journal, and elsewhere. Within her writing, she focuses on experimental forms and themes of family.  Dawn served as the 2024-2025 Co-Executive Editor for the San Joaquin Review journal.