Dan O’Brien

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Dan O’Brien is the author of five poetry collections: Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books, 2023), a collection of prose poems; Our Cancers (Acre Books, 2021); New Life (Hanging Loose Press, 2016); Scarsdale (Measure Press, 2015); and War Reporter (Hanging Loose Press, 2013), winner of the UK’s Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards for Drama, O’Brien lives in Los Angeles.