John Paul McKinney

John Paul McKinney is an EVVY award winning author who holds a PhD degree in developmental and clinical psychology from Ohio State University. He has taught at McGill, Smith College, and Michigan State in Psychology and in Pediatrics and Human Development.

Author of articles, chapters, encyclopedia entries and widely used text books, and former North American book reviews editor for the international Journal of Adolescence, McKinney has also written short stories, one of which won an award (Writers-Editors Network International Competition) and another of which was published in The Mountain Scribe Anthology. "Charlie's Angle" is his EVVY award-winning first novel.

The author lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife, three dogs and an obnoxious parrot. When he isn't writing or reading, he is either practicing his Celtic harp, creating sawdust in a woodworking shop, trying to fool trout with flies in a local stream, or knitting socks or sweaters.