Jaden McGinty

Current and Upcoming Publications

  • For the Sunflower People

    “I have decided the world, or ours at least, is not worth being saved, and that I wouldn’t be capable of doing so even if I wanted to. But I am capable of listening and carrying heavy things, and that was all Roger had asked for.”

    Published in Dark Mountain: Issue 22 – ARK

  • Samhain in Arizona

    “Grandpa and I had a few days alone together on the ranch. Our first night, he offered me a small mason jar of tequila to toast my return. I have always preferred a good Irish whisky, but I was in agave country now. Tequila is its spirit, so I drank deep.

    Published in Dark Mountain: Issue 24 — Eight Fires

  • There Are Selkies on the Salish Sea

    “The old man has been considering for a long time what story to tell, but the boy’s joy at meeting the sea has inspired him. It’s an old legend, from County Donegal where the McGinty clan first emerged.”

    Published in Tahoma Literary Review: Issue 26

  • My Brother Again and Again

    “‘Yaden, what are dese?’
    He pointed to the lodgepole pines we were walking through, but I didn’t know their names. I wished I did. I just said, ‘Christmas trees?’”

    Awaiting publication in Timberline Review: Issue 13

Bio

I am an emerging author from a family of hippies and Irish immigrants, born in Arizona, and raised in the Pacific Northwest. I write about lots of things, but mostly our relationships to land, myth, and each other in the American West. Otherwise, I work in habitat restoration, assist in historical research projects, and pick berries. Go raibh mile maith agat!

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