About Jenn Mckee

Jenn McKee is a Michigan-based journalist and essayist who spent more than a decade working as a staff arts reporter at The Ann Arbor News. (Two highlights, among many: attending a small press lunch with Patrick Stewart, and talking on the phone with David Sedaris for 45 amazing, truly lovely minutes.)

Most recently, Jenn's work has appeared in Scary Mommy, American Theatre magazine, Communication Arts magazine, Michigan Alumnus magazine, The Detroit Free Press, Metro Parent, and more. In addition, one short story she wrote, "Under the Influence," was selected by editor Joyce Carol Oates for inclusion in an anthology titled Best New American Voices.

Jenn earned her MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Pennsylvania State University (where she also taught undergraduate courses in rhetoric, business writing, and creative writing); an MA in English from University of Georgia; and a BA in creative writing and literature from the University of Michigan (where she played trombone in the Michigan Marching Band and wrote her first theater reviews for The Michigan Daily). 

Jenn lives in the Metro Detroit area with her commercial litigator husband (YOU try arguing with him, OK?), her two daughters, and a neurotic orange-and-white cat, in a modest home just steps away from the local public library.

And no, that's NOT a coincidence.