Joe McGinniss Jr. (born 1970) is an American writer.
He is the author of The Delivery Man and Carousel Court.
McGinniss graduated from Swarthmore College and later American University, where he obtained a Masters in Public Policy.
McGinniss worked for Mayor Willie Brown in San Francisco as a political consultant and community liaison focusing on development of programs for at-risk youths.
His short fiction has appeared in Las Vegas Weekly, and the New Yorker.