Connor Donovan (he/him) is a mathematics graduate student and writer from the Greater Philadelphia Region. He is currently studying at the University of Pittsburgh.His writing appears in Hominum Journal, The Literary Times, Vagabond City Lit, the engine(idling, and Hawai’i Pacific Review, among others. He is a Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize Nominee.
Selected Poems
"Son Ghazal," Three Sisters Literary: Forthcoming
"I've Been Exclusively Listening to Country Music Lately," wildscape. literary journal: Forthcoming
"Cento Where Everything is Significant," the engine(idling: Forthcoming
"Phases," The Literary Times: February, 2026 (Concrete Poetry Contest Winner)
"The Penultimate Supper," wildscape. literary journal: January, 2026
"DUPLEX [I know you think you know what this is…]," Same Faces Collective: December, 2025
"Four Poems," coalitionworks: November, 2025
"CONFESSION []," Hominum Journal: February, 2025 (Best of the Net Nominee)
"Two Poems," Prairie Home Magazine: November, 2024
"Self-Portrait With Wellbutrin & Pig Roast," Hawai'i Pacific Review: November, 2024
"First Night in Pittsburgh (Tanka)," underscore_magazine: November, 2024
"Wildflower [Sonnet]," the engine(idling: November, 2024 (Pushcart Prize Nominee)
"Amelia," Vagabond City Lit: October, 2024
"[Margins]," Eunoia Review: April, 2024
"An Honest Hinge Bio," Ghost City Review: April, 2024
"On Bohnen's Summer Night," Swim Press: June, 2023 (Ekphrasis Contest Winner)
"It's nice to see you, despite the circumstances," Blue Marble Review: June, 2023
Research Papers
Connor Donovan, Danielle Paulson, Pablo Soberón, "Colorful and Quantitative Variations of Krasnosselsky's Theorem," Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica: 2025
Connor Donovan, Nicholas A. Scoville, "Star Clusters in the Matching, Morse, and Generalized Complex of Discrete Morse Functions," New York Journal of Mathematics: 2023
Connor Donovan, Maxwell Lin, and Nicholas A. Scoville, “On the homotopy and strong homotopy type of complexes of discrete Morse functions,” Canadian Mathematical Bulletin: 2022
