Steven "Catfish" McDaris (born 1953) is an American poet and author who is often associated with Allen Ginsberg.
After 3 years serving in the military as a young man, he hopped freights and hitchhiked across the U.S. and Mexico.
He built adobe houses, tamed wild horses, made cattle troughs, worked in a zinc smelter, and painted flag poles.
During the same year, he also read at The First Underground Press Conference at De Paul University in Chicago.
[3] In addition, his work has appeared in such publications as The Penny Dreadful Review, Chiron Review, the Shepherd Express [7] and Blink-Ink[8] Marquette University holds his collected published works and personal papers in their special collections archives.