Daniel Norton DeVaughn is a writer and educator from Birmingham, Alabama and the author of The Passion (Omnidawn, 2028), winner of the 2025 Omnidawn Poetry Open Book Contest. He received an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas, where he serves as Poetry Editor for American Literary Review. In addition to teaching creative writing and first year writing courses at UNT, he is a Lecturer in the Language & Literature Program at The University of Texas at Dallas.
DeVaughn’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Image Journal, Poets.org, Cutleaf Journal, The Adroit Journal, The Shore, Mid-American Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Birmingham Poetry 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 received scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
His experimental film collaborations with Non Films (Brooklyn) 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 1 Minute Dream Award at the Avalonia Film Festival. He lives in Denton, Texas with his partner and their dogs, Patty and Bowie.