Daniel DeVaughn is a writer and poet from Birmingham, 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 candidate at the University of North Texas. He received an MFA from the University of Oregon.
DeVaughn’s poems are featured or forthcoming in Cutleaf Journal, Mid-American Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Poets.org, The Adroit Journal, 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 also received scholarships and fellowships from Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Vermont Studio Center, 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 1 Minute Dream Award at the Avalonia Film Festival. He lives in Denton, Texas with his wife and their two dogs.