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McKenzie Lynn Tozan is a Midwestern writer transplanted to coastal Croatia. She is a published poet and novelist, the Editor-in-Chief of Lit Shark and the Banned Book Review, as well as a Poetry Reader for MUZZLE Magazine and Little Free Lit Mag. To date, her writing-to-publishing platform, The Path to Peaceful Publishing, has served more than 250 authors in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her poems, essays, and book reviews have been featured in The Rumpus, Green Mountains Review, Whale Road Review, Rogue Agent, POPSUGAR, Motherly, and Encore Magazine, among others. Her short horror story collection, What We Find in the Dark, and her horror novella, Black As Black, are both forthcoming from The Shiver Collective in 2024.
McKenzie’s Backstory
McKenzie earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University, where she taught composition, creative writing, and business writing, and worked as the Layout and Design Editor for New Issues Poetry and Prose, and Poetry Editor for Third Coast.
Prior, she earned her B.A. in English, B.S. in Education, and Certificate in Psychology, while she taught composition and argumentative writing, and worked as the Managing Editor for 42 Miles Press and Poetry Editor for Analecta.
In early 2015, the final year of her M.F.A., McKenzie began accepting independent social media and publishing clients, in addition to the editing clients she began accepting in 2010. Offering editing, book cover and interior design, professional branding, book marketing plans, publishing assistance, and social media management, McKenzie has helped more than 250 novelists, poets, and influencers, jumpstarting some of today’s top #InstaPoets, “BookTok Made Me Buy It” writers, and New York Times best-selling authors.
More About McKenzie
McKenzie lives on the Croatian coast and travels Europe with her husband, Dragan, their three kiddos (Cadence, Grayson, and Landon—the inspiration for the name of Dragan’s tech repair and website design business, GrL’Ca), and their cat, Effie Mae Trinket (yes, inspired by The Hunger Games and “May the odds…”). When she is not writing or traveling, she enjoys creating art, reading, playing piano, and being outside, especially in the fall. Her three biggest non-writing goals are to grow a coastal pumpkin patch, to deep-sea dive with sharks, and to participate in coastal cleanup, coral restoration, and animal rescue.
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