DW McKinney

DW McKinney is a writer and editor based in Nevada. A 2023 Periplus Fellow, her work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, the Normal School, Barrelhouse, and Hippocampus Magazine, among others. She is a nonfiction editor for Shenandoah and editor-at-large for Raising Mothers. Say hey at dwmckinney.com.

Nonfiction – Issue 33

•In the Water’s Grip

Under the waves of a storm off the Galápagos Islands, a biology student confronts her childhood fear of and fascination with the ocean, exploring the legacies of exclusion that have denied Black people in the United States access to swimming.