Brian McGuigan is poet, writer, performer and arts get-shit-done-er. He is the curator of the popular reading series, “Cheap Wine and Poetry” and “Cheap Beer and Prose,” and the marketing and events director at Richard Hugo House. In 2010, McGuigan was shortlisted for The Stranger’s Genius Award in Literature, and in 2008, he was a fellow in the Jack Straw Writers Program. Spankstra Press published his chapbook of poetry, “More Than I Left Behind,” in 2006. His poetry and writing have appeared in City Arts, Seattle magazine, Rivet Magazine, Filter Literary Journal, Slipstream and others.
Currently, McGuigan is at work on a multimedia personal essay about his struggles with weight loss entitled “Fat Fuck,” which he has presented excerpts of at Bumbershoot, Central Cinema and Annex Theater. He has been working on a collection of poetry entitled “Eat the Rich.” He writes short stories here and there and blogs regularly on the Hugo blog.
McGuigan was born and raised in Queens, NY, making him a serious Yankee fan and very particular about his pizza. He lives in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle with his wife Jaime and his dogs Jelly and Lulu.
