Jillian Danback-McGhan

Jillian Danback-McGhan is a Navy veteran, former child actor, and the author of the debut short story collection Midwatch (Split/Lip Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Military Experience and the Arts, storySouth, Line of Advance, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, and the anthologies Proud to Be (Volume 12): Writing From America's Warriors (Missouri Humanities and Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2024) and Our Best War Stories (Middle West Press, 2020). Her work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center and Mission Belonging and she is the recipient of the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards and the Proud to Be Veteran Writing Awards. Jillian is a graduate of Georgetown University and the United States Naval Academy. She resides in Maryland with her husband and three rambunctious Siberian huskies.