Dan Pinkerton

Dan Pinkerton lives in Urbandale, Iowa. He earned an MA in creative writing from Iowa State University and an MFA in creative writing from Penn State University.

Dan’s stories and poems have appeared in Chicago Quarterly, Crazyhorse, Cimarron Review, Subtropics, North American Review, Boulevard, New Orleans Review, and Pleiades, among others. Additionally, his work has appeared in anthologies published by the editors of 32 Poems, Diagram, and No Tell Motel, as well as the 2008 edition of Best New American Voices, guest edited by Richard Bausch.

Dan has been the recipient of two Academy of American Poets prizes and an AWP Intro Journals Award. He was a finalist for the 2006 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the 2016 Montana Prize in Fiction given by Cutbank, and the 2021 NORward Prize awarded by New Ohio Review. He has been nominated for six Pushcart Prizes. Dan’s first book of poetry is Democracy of Noise.