Daniel 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 served as Poetry Editor at American Literary Review. He is a Lecturer of English & World Languages at Colorado State University Pueblo.
DeVaughn’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Poets.org, The Adroit Journal, Image Journal, Tupelo Quarterly, North American Review, Southern Humanities Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Texas University Press's Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama, among others. A recipient of an Academy of American Poets prize, he has received support from the 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 Colorado Springs with his partner and their two dogs, Patty and Bowie.