Kindra McDonald

Kindra McDonald is the author of the books Fossils and In the Meat Years, (both in 2019) and the chapbooks Elements and Briars (2016) and Concealed Weapons, (2015). She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte. She is an Adjunct Professor of Writing and teaches poetry at The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, VA. She has spent the last year and a half in national service as a park ranger in Virginia State Parks, building trails, studying snakes and hanging out in swamps looking for the elusive Chicken Turtle. She serves as Regional VP of the Virginia Poetry Society and was the recipient of the 2020 Haunted Waters Press Poetry Award. She lives in the city of mermaids with her husband and cats where she bakes, hikes, and changes hobbies monthly.

“All of the animals I have seen this summer,” featured in Sixth Issue, Art Meets Science: Examining Conservation & Biodiversity