Dana Wall is the winner of Columbia Journal's 2025 Online Fiction Contest for "Dissolution Studies." Her work appears in or is upcoming in DIAGRAM, Brevity, River Teeth, Tupelo Quarterly, Hunger Mountain, Strange Horizons, The Maine Review, and elsewhere. She has received two Pushcart Prize nominations, a Best of the Net nomination, and a Best New Poets nomination from The Shore. Her story "The First Cell" won second place in Story Unlikely's 2026 International Short Story Contest from more than 1,400 submissions, where her stories "The Only Act She Kept" and "The Women Who Swallowed Light" were also recognized. As a screenwriter, her comedy pilot Jane Austen's Juvenilia placed third in the Half-Hour Pilot Competition at Cinequest. Dana earned her MFA from Goddard College and lives in Manhattan Beach, California.