Daniel Lawless

Poet

Author's Bio

Daniel Lawless is the author of The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With; his current book, I Tell You This Now was released in March, 2024.  Recent poems appear in FIELD, Barrow Street, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Los Angeles Review, upsteet, SOLSTICE, Manhattan Review, Massachusetts Review, JAMA, and Dreaming Awake: New Prose Poetry from the U.S., Australia, and the U.K., among others. A recipient of a continuing Shifting Foundation grant, he is the founder and editor of Plume:  A Journal of Contemporary Poetry, Plume Editions, and the annual Plume Poetry anthologies.

Publications & Prizes

Book:
The Gun My Sister Killed Herself With (Salmon Poetry, 2018)

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Follian, Simic, Angie Estes, Cortazar, Trakl...
What I'm reading now: 
La Vie me fait peur by Jean-Paul Dubois

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Louisville, KY
Kentucky
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Last update: Jul 12, 2024