Mackenzie Kean is a writer from central Jersey and a recent graduate of Rutgers University. Her poetry appears in Philadelphia Stories, Writers House Review, and Eunoia Review. In May of 2022, her work received an honorable mention in the Sandy Crimmins National Prize for Poetry. Her love for writing emerged from the poems, plays, songs, newsletters, unfinished novels, picture books, and online magazines she created and shared with her family throughout her childhood.