Jillian Danback-McGhan is a writer, Navy veteran, and the author of Midwatch (Split/Lip Press, 2024), her debut collection of short fiction.

Jillian’s work has appeared in Military Experience and the Arts, storySouth, Proud to Be: Writing from America’s Warriors (Missouri Humanities and Southeast Missouri State Press), The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Line of Advance, Minerva Rising, and the anthology Our Best War Stories (Middle West Press, 2020). She is the winner of the 2020 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards and her work has been supported by the Fine Arts Work Center, Community Building Art Works, and Missouri Humanities. Jillian holds degrees from the U.S. Naval Academy, George Mason University, and Georgetown University and was a literature instructor at the United States Naval Academy. She resides in Annapolis, Maryland with her family.