Mort: Dennis Ray McMillan

People asked, so I dug a little deeper into the recent death of publisher Dennis McMillan. I first heard he died on May 1, but update that to May 5 — as announced in this message on the Dennis Facebook page: “Dennis McMillan died on May 5, 2026 at HonorHealth John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. He had caught pneumonia and had some cardiac issues which led to his passing on the fifth day in the hospital.” The shot above is one Dennis sent me when he turned 60 — a self portrait, and I testify that is Dennis both in the flesh and in spirit. I called Kent Harrington to see if he’d heard more details. Last I knew Dennis had been in Tucson for a few months, acting as caretaker for an old guy in decline. (If I have it right, this guy was a longtime pal of Kent Anderson.) Before that Dennis was in Florida, doing pretty much the same thing — I think I heard that that person died, leading to the move back to Tucson. Calling Dennis several times to fact-check a memoir I was working on,…