Over the years Louise McKinney's poetry, essays, articles and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and journals such as Toronto Life, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Literature, The Washington Post, and New Orleans magazine. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in the U.S., and is anthologized in a number of collections. In 2013, Guernica Editions of Toronto published Louise McKinney's first volume of poetry, The Woman Who Drank Her Own Reflection, which was originally shortlisted for the Texas Review’s annual poetry prize. Currently, she is seeking publication of a novel ("COVID baby"), a second volume of poetry, and some children's works .

Her book of creative nonfiction, New Orleans: A Cultural History (Oxford University Press USA, 2006), chronicles the decade she spent living in the Big Easy, writing about it for international readership. Recently, McKinney returned to Toronto from Atlanta, GA, where she was a faculty member of Georgia State University and an editor at the award-winning literary journal The Chattahoochee Review.

 

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