Corie McKinaly

Corie McKinlay is a Pacific Northwest poet and finance executive who fills notebooks by hand, chasing what numbers can't measure. She writes prose poems and playful traditional forms, including counting rhymes that carry heavier truths than their sing-song shape suggests. Her work explores love, leaving, family, and joy loud enough to shake the walls. She believes a poem should feel like a hand placed on the chest: close, honest, and alive.