Prose #8: Damon McKinney

"Cushing" by Damon McKinney

(Eastern Oklahoma) In this gritty story, a man finds himself caught in a fight for neighborhood and family loyalty.

This is the eighth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers. 

Damon McKinney is an Indigenous author currently residing in northeast Arkansas. He has a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Arkansas in Little Rock. He’s a member of the Sauk and Fox Nation of Oklahoma. His body of work is found on various online literary magazines. He is the former managing editor for Emerge Literary Journal, former contributing editor for Barren Magazine, and former fiction editor for Likely Red Press. He’s been married for twenty-one years to his wife, Sara, and together they
have two children. His chapbook, Beer-Breath Kisses, is forthcoming from Belle Point Press (July 2023).

• Publication Date: February 2023
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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