Dan O’Connell is a four-time award winning poet, and multiple finalist and honorable mention. His poems have appeared over seventy times, including in Mississippi Review, Homestead Review, San Francisco Reader, Parthenon West Review, and most recently America Magazine (Foley Poetry Prize, 2015), Big Bell Magazine (2016), Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize (2017), RavensPerch (2018) and Ghost Town Review (2018). A former Philosophy and Rhetoric professor, Dan has his own law practice with a focus on protecting the underdog, and teaches and writes about Law. He is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: Different Coasts, and Theory of Salvation.