Dan DeVaughn is a writer and poet from Alabama, where he grew up near the headwaters of the Cahaba River. He is Poetry Editor at the American Literary Review and a Voertman-Ardoin Teaching Fellow and PhD student at the University of North Texas. DeVaughn’s poems are featured or forthcoming in Mid-American Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Poets.org, The Adroit Journal, Southern Humanities Review, The Nashville Review, Texas University Press's Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama, and elsewhere. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, he has also received scholarships and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His collaborations with Non Films have won Best Brooklyn Project at the Brooklyn Film Festival, the University Jury Award at the Blue Danube Festival, Best Poetry Film at the Kinodrome Film Festival, and the Avalonia Theme Dream Movie Award at the Avalonia Film Festival. He holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and lives in Denton, Texas with his fiancée and their two dogs.