Self-Portrait as Boyhood Erection

Max McDonough grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but escaped to sub-rural Virginia at the age of sixteen. When night expeditions to the local Walmart parking lot there became too perilous, he matriculated to the University of Virginia where he failed to become a surgeon and instead pursued a degree in English. He is an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University, head nonfiction editor of Nashville Review, and has work forthcoming in Columbia Poetry Review.