Dan DeWeese’s novel You Don’t Love This Man (2011) was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and a winner of Late Night Library’s Debut-litzer Prize. Disorder (2012), a story collection, was the inaugural title of the Oregon Book Club, and his novel Gielgud (2018) was a small-press bestseller. His fiction has appeared in publications including Tin House, New England Review, Washington Square, and The Normal School, and his essays and criticism have appeared in publications including Oregon Humanities, Boneshaker, Matter, and Democracy in Education.

In 2009, DeWeese started the web magazine Propeller, where he served as Editor-in-Chief. He is currently the publisher and managing editor of Propeller Books and the series editor of the Northwest Collection.

The winner of a 2003 Oregon Literary Fellowship, DeWeese teaches writing, film, and rhetoric at Portland State University, where he has twice won the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award for Best Writing Instructor. He lives in Portland.