Dan Taulapapa McMullin (born May 23, 1957) is an American Samoan artist, known for their poetry, visual art and film.
[1] McMullin has been creating literary and artistic works for over 35 years, and has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants.
In their adult life, they have spent time in Los Angeles (where they worked for many years), and now live with their husband in Hudson, New York.
Their childhood home on Samoa has been described as "a traditional Samoan fale roundhouse with coral stone flooring and sugarcane thatching, brought up making indigenous siapo barkcloth painting by their great-grandmother Fa'asapa.
They spent much of their early career in television and then theater, before leaving those industries to focus on poetry and visual art.
"[2] McMullin identifies as fa'afafine, a Samoan third gender for which there is no exact English translation, but which is often described as a man who lives as a woman.
"[2] McMullin's poetry and essays have been primarily published in anthologies focused on LGBTQ or Pacific Island indigenous literature.
McMullin's first full-length poetry collection, Coconut Milk (2013) was named in the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow top-ten overall category.