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Hi! I’m McKenna Tanner, and this is my website. Feel free to take a look at my written and drawn work, and let me know what you think!

What’s This About?

I’m an aspiring author with a passion for artwork and graphic design. Here, I have some of my pieces for your perusal. Enjoy!

Blog

Quote for the Day #6

“A breeze sent down a sequence of linear snow puffs from somewhere above. Beautiful. Why were we made just so, to find so many things that happened every day pretty?” George Saunders, “Tenth of December”

Private: Writing

“Gone”
R2: The Rice Review (2021) Vol. 17 No. 1

“C@R Hosts Roundtable with JFS Authors on Youth Suicide”
Children at Risk Blog (July 2021)

https://childrenatrisk.org/jfs-youth-suicide/

“Children and Climate Change | Volume 12. Issue 1 of the Journal of Applied Research on Children”
Children at Risk Blog (August 2021)

https://childrenatrisk.org/jarc_v12_environment/

Artwork

Pencil drawing of anole lizard perched on wooden gate
Hello Neighbor
A graphite piece
Drawing in colored pencil of a halved grapefruit, next to a yellow squash, with a halved kiwi on top, on a blue background
Crowded
A Prismacolor still-life
Colored pencil drawing of a sunny-side-up egg drawn on brown paper
Yolk
A Prismacolor egg study
Grayscale drawing of various architecture on a checkered floor, including a staircase leading into an arch, a tower attached to a set of stairs, and a many-columned temple, with stars in the black sky
Space
A graphite and water-soluble pencil fantasy piece
A drawing of several Lego pieces done in charcoal
Balance
A charcoal still-life
A pencil drawing of an origami crane and a paper curl
Air
A graphite still life
A graphite drawing of the head of one safety pin and the end of another
Hold
A graphite safety pin study