
DW McKinney is a 2023 Periplus Fellow with writing featured in the Ecotone, Romper, Los Angeles Review of Books, Narratively, the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and elsewhere.
A recipient of the “My Time” Fellowship with The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, the inaugural Shenandoah Fellowship for BIPOC Editors, and a fiction residency with The New Southern Fugitives, she was also a finalist for the 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award (december magazine) and the 2020 Remember in November Contest in Creative Nonfiction (Hippocampus Magazine).
She serves as a nonfiction editor for Shenandoah and Editor-at-Large for Raising Mothers, where she has founded and is the current instructor for We Are The House: A Virtual Residency for Emerging Writers.