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Raised in Oregon and Alaska, Katy McKinney received her B.A. from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, then spent the next 30 years as a teacher, first in the Portland area’s Outdoor School programs and then in the classroom where she taught 5th and 6th graders everything from long division to plate tectonics to dodge ball to poetry. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from Pacific University in 2006. Her work has been published in The Sun, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Sleet Magazine, Haibun Today, Manzanita Quarterly, In Posse Review, Lucid Rhythms, Perigee, RAIN Magazine, Pacific Magazine, and Windfall, as well as in several anthologies. Since 1981, she has lived with her family in Trout Lake, Washington, at the base of Mt. Adams. Fireproofing the Woods, published by Dancing Moon Press, is her first book.