Drowning the Boy

Daniel McGinn is a native of Whittier, California. He received his MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work has been published in The MacGuffin, Rip Rap, SurVision, Spillway, and The OC Weekly along with many other magazines and anthologies. He is the author of several chapbooks in the Laguna Poets series. His full-length poetry collections are are 1000 Black Umbrellas (Write Bloody, 2011) and The Moon, My Lover, My Mother & The Dog ( Moon Tide Press, 2018). In 2021, he won James Tate Poetry Prize for his chapbook "Drowning the Boy"