Author
Dan O’Brien
Dan O’Brien is a playwright and poet who lives in Los Angeles. He is a 2015-16 Guggenheim Fellow in Drama & Performance Art. His poetry collections, War Reporter, Scarsdale, and New Life, are published in the United States and the UK. He frequently teaches playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Nonfiction
Feb 01 2018
Of Time and the Theatre
About eighteen months ago, six months after my wife had been diagnosed with stage 2B breast cancer, I was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer with metastasis to the liver.… read more
Poetry
Jan 05 2015
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on How to Eat Well”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the King of Kings”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on the Question of the Bombing of Syria”
“The War Photographer Lynsey Addario Tells the War Reporter Paul Watson”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Son of the Tortured”
Poetry
Jul 22 2013
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Remembers the Escape”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson in the Colonies”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson and the Mountain Gorillas”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Gives the Poet Some Advice”
“The War ReporterPaul Watson Interviews the Negotiator”
Poetry
Jul 24 2012
Poetry Feature: Dan O’Brien
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on Winning the Pulitzer Prize”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson on Suicide”
“Portrait of the War Reporter Paul Watson as a Young Man”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Meets Mother Theresa”
“The War Reporter Paul Watson Retells the Story of the Diver and the Goddess”
“The Poet and the War Reporter Paul Watson Go for a Sled Ride”