Deshawn McKinney

Deshawn McKinney is a writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin working in whatever medium is best to tell the story. His work appears in journals such as Lolwe, Ploughshares, and Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Deshawn has performed around the world, from Kingston, Jamaica to London, England, serves as an instructor for Madison Writers’ Studio’s Fourth Lake Writing Weekend and is a two time Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a 2016 Truman Scholar, a 2017 Marshall Scholar, and holds a Master in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Master in Creative Writing – Poetry from the University of East Anglia. His debut chapbook, father forgive me, was published by Black Sunflowers Poetry Press in 2021.