Jaden McGinty is an essayist and fiction writer from the Pacific Northwest. He was a born to a family of Irish Catholics and hippy outlaws in Bisbee, Arizona, and spent most of his childhood in Idaho. His work has appeared in journals like Dark Mountain, Tahoma Literary Review, and Sky Islands Literary Journal, and he has been nominated for Best of the Net twice. Currently, he lives in Seattle, where he is an MFA candidate in Prose at the University of Washington.
Selected work
A Selkirk Love Affair
Wayfarer Magazine, 2025
A Baptism at Bennington Lake
Wild Roof Journal, 2024
God Talks but Grandma Won't Listen
Sky Island Journal, 2024
My Brother Again and Again
The Timberline Review, 2024
Samhain in Arizona
Dark Mountain, 2023
There Are Selkies on the Salish Sea
Tahoma Literary Review, 2024
For the Sunflower People
Dark Mountain, 2022
