Chris McKinney explained

Chris McKinney
Birth Place:Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Occupation:Writer
Language:English
Nationality:American
Citizenship:American
Education:University of Hawaii
Children:2

Chris McKinney is an American writer born and raised in Hawaii.[1]

Career

His novels are set in Hawaii and the plots often concern the difficulties of underprivileged people dealing with societal change.[2] He is an associate professor in Language Arts at Honolulu Community College where he has taught since 2003.[3] [4]

McKinney was a fellow of the Hawai`i Writing Project in 1998 and the 2000 recipient of the Elliot Cades Award for Literature.[5] His novel, The Tattoo, won first place awards for Excellence in Literature and Excellence in Writing Literature from The Hawai`i Book Publishers Association. His screenplay Paradise Broken was nominated for best film at the Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival. His latest novel, Midnight Water City was named a Best Mystery of 2021 by Publishers Weekly [6] and a Best Speculative Mystery of 2021 by CrimeReads [7]

Personal life

McKinney was born in Honolulu and grew up in nearby Kahalu'u.[8] His mother was Korean and his father was from Hawai'i.[9] When he was a baby his parents divorced; they both remarried and his father moved to the US mainland, to Gaithersburg, Maryland and later Selma, California.[10] From fourth to sixth grade, he spent the school year with his father and their new family, and summers in Hawaii with his mother and her family. He stopped going back to the mainland in 6th grade.

He attended Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu for high school and graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi with a B.A. in English. He has been married twice and has two children.[11] [12]

Legal issues

In 2019, McKinney was identified as a co-conspirator in the indictment of former Honolulu deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, a family friend.[13] Between 2015 and 2017, McKinney allegedly conspired with Rudy Puana, the brother of Katherine Kealoha, to illegally sell oxycodone pills, or use the pills to purchase cocaine.[14]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://hawaiibookandmusicfestival.com/mckinney-chris/ Chris McKinney on Hawaii Book and Music Festival website
  2. Web site: Carlson . Ragnar . Central character » Honolulu Weekly . honoluluweekly.com . 2009-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090524153416/http://honoluluweekly.com/qanda/2009/05/central-character/ . 2009-05-24 . dead . 2021-09-23.
  3. Web site: Chris McKinney . Honolulu Community College . 2021-09-23.
  4. Web site: Chris McKinney Will Teach Fiction at KWW 2015! . The Ko`olau Writers Workshop . 2015-02-09 . 2021-09-23.
  5. Web site: Awards and Accolades . National Writing Project . 2015-02-13 . 2021-09-23.
  6. Web site: Best Books 2021: Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly .
  7. Web site: The Best Speculative Thrillers and Mysteries of 2021 . December 21, 2021 .
  8. http://www.pbshawaii.org/ourproductions/longstory_guests/mckinney.htm "Chris McKinney: Acclaimed Hawaii Author"
  9. Web site: Chris McKinney / Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox . PBS Hawai‘i . 2014-09-15 . 2021-09-23.
  10. Oi, Cynthia. "Author's anger gives way to awareness – and a novel that explodes images of paradise". Star Bulletin
  11. Web site: Chris McKinney's New Book Dives into Honolulu's Mysterious Underworld . Honolulu Magazine . 2016-09-21 . 2021-09-23.
  12. Web site: Hawai'i's Future is Underwater . The Hawaiʻi Review of Books . 2021-07-14 . 2021-09-23.
  13. Web site: A dismissed 2015 DUI is among the ways Kealoha allegedly helped her friends . Hawaii News Now . 2019-02-27 . 2022-01-17.
  14. Web site: The Kealohas, Cocaine Parties and Oxycodone. July 20, 2021.
  15. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/May/08/il/hawaii905080337.html Mililani Mauka
  16. http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/December-2012/Under-the-Surface-with-Boi-No-Good/ "Under the Surface with Boi No Good"
  17. http://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/content/chris-mckinney%E2%80%99s-latest-boi-no-good Boi No Good

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