WHERE TO FIND ME
Medium: The GeekOut (Entertainment, Books, & Cultural/Societal Commentary) and Poetically Unfit (Fitness, Health, Chronic Illness, & 75 Hard), and occasional personal essays, writing tips/reflections, & parenting
Substack: Mediterranean & Me (American Living in Croatia—Food, Travel, Family, & Culture) and McKenzie Lynn Tozan Writes (Poetry & Writing Challenges)
Lit Shark Magazine: Editor-in-Chief at Lit Shark, Issues of Lit Shark Magazine, Book Reviews, Author Interviews, and Articles about Writing, Writing Prompts, Conservation, Sustainability, & Animal Rights
My Website: Writing Portfolio & Books——Services Available in Editing, Writing, Reviewing, Social Media, & Design for Indie Authors, Poets, Lit Mags, & Small Presses, as well as Hotels, Restaurants, & Dream Destinations
ABOUT ME
McKenzie Lynn Tozan is a formerly Midwestern writer, transplanted to coastal Croatia. She is a published poet, novelist, and the Editor-in-Chief of Lit Shark Magazine and the Banned Book Review. She received her MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University and her BA in English/BS in Education from Indiana University South Bend, where she began her work in publishing. Her poems have appeared in Rogue Agent, Whale Road Review, Young Ravens Review, The Birds We Piled Loosely, and Encore Magazine, among others; her book reviews and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Green Mountains Review, Memoir Mixtapes, The Life Collective, Her Journal, Motherly, and more; and she had a chapter on Australian vampire lore featured in the critical anthology, Global Perspectives on the Liminality of the Supernatural: From Animus to Zombi. McKenzie’s 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 2025. When she’s not writing, McKenzie is spending time with her kiddos, cat, and husband; reading submissions for Lit Shark; making future plans to start a pumpkin patch on the coast (seriously); physically conditioning to start scuba-diving and swimming with sharks in spring 2026 (also seriously); stumbling her way through learning Croatian; researching local conservation projects she can get involved in; and getting back into playing piano and creating visual art.
