Dagny McKinley

Dagny McKinley has an MFA from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets and Writers and a BA in English from the University of Western Ontario. She studied journalism and writing at UCLA.

She currently works as a freelance writer in Steamboat Springs, CO with a focus on Search Engine Optimization. In an effort to combine her love of literature and poetry along with positive change that is being made regarding the environment, she created UndiscoveredEarth.com.

As a journalist, McKinley has contributed to Published in Modern Dog, Ocean Magazine, Women’s Adventure Magazine, Steamboat Pilot & Today, The Denver Post & the Aspen Times. She has also been a contributor to Mountain House & Home, Steamboat Magazine, Homelink and DCD Home

McKinley’s books include Wild Hearts: Dog Sledding the Rockies a coffee table book of photography and text based on her experiences working for a dog sledding company, Lessons My Mother Taught Me: the good, the bad and the questionable and The Adventures of a Girl & Her Dog (a children’s book).

McKinley is the author of Audrey Rose, a long running column about a free spirited girl finding her place in a town while her heart lives in nature. Her essay 'How Are You?' was recently published in the book Now: Embracing the Present Moment. Her short stories have appeared in Nylon Screams and cliteraturejournal.com. A Soldier’s Peasant was published in Di Algo Para Romper Este Silencio, an anthology celebrating Raymond Carver.

Her play The Eccentricities of a Butterfly was produced by The Great American Laughing Stock Company. The story Pray was performed by Stories on Stage in conjunction with the Denver Art Museum’s HotDAM events and Denver Center for the Performing Arts actors.

McKinley lives in Steamboat Springs with her dog where they explore as far as their feet can carry them.