Kacy McKinney (she/they) is a queer visual artist, avid birder, and scholar/educator with a PhD in human geography. She works in comics, drawing, illustration, and textile and garment design and production. Her book of comics poetry, Mourning Attire, will be released at the Short Run Comix Festival in November 2025. She is the creator of the community-based research and collaborative comics project Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability in collaboration with Street Roots and the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her work has been published in the Journal of American Folklore, Geoforum, ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, the Journal of Peasant Studies, Pile Press, and in edited books published by Routledge and the University of Toronto Press. She has received grants and awards from the Precipice Fund of Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation, and the Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative. She has been awarded residencies from Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Mesa Refuge, and Trailer Blaze Comics Residency. She is currently Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative at Portland State University. Originally from Inverness, California, she now lives in Portland, Oregon.