McKenna Princing (she/her) is a storyteller who writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction and dabbles in screenwriting. She has an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University and earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Washington. She was a 2024 Jack Straw Writing Fellow.

She is currently working on a novel set in 1920s Oregon that is a crossover between historical and supernatural fiction.

She has always called Western Washington home, and its mossy, rainy, mushroom-filled forests are her greatest source of creative inspiration.

Some of her favorite writers include Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Shirley Jackson, Ottessa Moshfegh, Tamsyn Muir, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jeff VanderMeer. She also loves classic literature, especially from the Victorian era, and she studies folklore and fairy tales.

McKenna works as a health writer for UW Medicine. Her favorite hobbies include hiking, rain or shine; photographing nature (especially mushrooms); rewatching The X-Files; taking naps; eating chocolate; and psychoanalyzing strangers.