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This Belington (Barbour County) native earned degrees from West Virginia Wesleyan College, West Virginia University, and the University of Utah.
Her first book of poems, The Girl with the Stone in Her Lap, came out in 1976. She taught writing at several schools, including West Virginia Wesleyan, where she led the creative writing program.
McKinney received many awards for her poetry, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1993, she was named West Virginia’s poet laureate and held the role until she passed away.
She also helped start Trellis, a poetry journal, and was poet-in-residence for the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. Some of her other books include Quick Fire and Slow Fire, Vivid Companion, and Unthinkable: Selected Poems 1976–2004.
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