Dan Taulapapa McMullin an artist and poet from Sāmoa-i-Sisifo (Eastern Samoa). Their new artist book, The Healer's Wound (2022), is co published by Pu'uhonua Society and Tropic Editions of Honolulu. Their book of poems Coconut Milk (2013) was on the American Library Association Top Ten LGBT Books of the Year. Their recent book Samoan Queer Lives (2018) is a collaboration with the Fa'afafine community. Their poem The Bat and other early works received a 1997 Poets&Writers Award. Their film Sinalela won the 2002 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival Best Short Film Award. Their film 100 Tikiswas the opening night film selection of the 2016 Présence Autochtone First Peoples Festival. Their art studio and writing practice is based in Hudson, New York, where they lives with their partner.