New Black Fest
commisions short plays in response to the Trayvon Martin case from Dominique Morisseau, Winter Miller, Dan O’Brien in collaboration with musician Quetzal Flores, Marcus Gardley, Mona Mansour and Tala Manassah, and A. Rey Pamatmat. NYTimes coverage here.

Visitations
to receive its NY premiere at the Prototype Festival in January. NYTimes coverage here.

War Reporter
shortlisted for the UK's Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Guardian coverage here.  

Writer-in-Residence
at the James Merill House in Stonington, CT. 

Poems
in current issues of Missouri Review, The Moth, North American Review, Poetry Review, Saint Ann's Review, Sugar House Review, and War, Literature & the Arts.

"Next Big Thing"
interview at storySouth on War Reporter, forthcoming from Hanging Loose Press and CB Editions.

Kandahar to Canada
in Ensemble Studio Theatre's 34th Marathon of One-Act Plays. With Lily Balsen, Abraham Markany & Jay Patterson. Mark Armstrong directs.

"The War Reporter Paul Watson on the Examination of Women"
in Birmingham Poetry Review Lit Trip 20 at The Steiny Road to Operadom.  

Visitations: Theotokia & The War Reporter
in the New York Times.

Visitations: Theotokia & The War Reporter
premieres April 12 & 13 at Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University. Composed by Jonathan Berger, libretti by Dan O'Brien, directed by Rinde Eckert. With conductor Christopher Rountree, soprano Heather Buck, pianist Pedja Muzijevik, New York Polyphony, and St. Lawrence String Quartert. Commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Mellon Foundation for Stanford Live. More info here.