Max McDonough

Max McDonough’s debut poetry collection, Python with a Dog Inside It, won the St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press. His poetry and prose have been published in The New York Times, POETRY, AGNI, Ecotone, T Magazine, Northwest Review, Best New Poets, and The Adroit Journal, among others. He earned his MFA from Vanderbilt University and his BA from the University of Virginia. McDonough read at Vanderbilt on April 2, 2026. This pop-up exhibit was inspired by Python with a Dog Inside It.