Dana Brewer Harris is a Washington, DC-based fiction writer and voiceover artist.

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My Background

I write character-driven literary fiction because I want to bring people’s inner lives to the page. I think a lot about the mystery of personality and why people do what we do. Why do we become entangled in storms of our own making? Read my latest, “Bed Work” published in The Baltimore Review, October, 2025.

Atticus Review (2022)

CRAFT Literary (2024)

Shot by IHH. Orkney, Scotland

“The porch rail has dried and cracked,

and leaves a splinter in my hand. It’s all I’ll carry with me from here. I don’t know why it was so cold this morning, but I’m off to another dream, as this one has failed to thrive, and I will always build my home opposite the sun.”

Excerpt from “Fogbow” published in Flash Fiction Magazine, July 2024

Shot by DBH. Edinburgh, Scotland

“In the cemetery,

Yuudai kisses me. He has hair as coarse as pine needles and broad shoulders that rake and haul and dig and plant. One arm wraps around me as we walk to the chapel where he drapes my panties across the velvet kneeler before his head sinks between my thighs. One day, my stomach growls. One day after that and the day after that until always, he brings a foil-lined bag packed tight with sea-foam colored bowls of fish and rice, and salty sheets of nori, or perhaps pickled cucumbers, thick toast, and eggs. We walk across the dead and say their names and on the days I don’t come, I miss him . . . We leave the dead behind, their bony hands and the weight of the world on their chests, and live our lives. Yuudai, steady and waiting, while I flow back and forth to him, the weft to his warp.”

Excerpt from “Sweep” published in Atticus Review, February 2022

Shot by IHH. Brough of Birsay, Orkney, Scotland

“What it began with, I know finally, is my grim curiosity.”

“Had She Been a Waterstrider” published by DarkWinter Literary Magazine, November 2022