About

P. B. McKenzie is a former journalist with more than thirty years of experience telling stories in the spaces where real life happens—across newsrooms, documentary sets, and creative studios. His work has been defined by close attention to the quiet details that reveal who people are: the way they speak, the choices they make under pressure, and the truths they hold when nobody is watching.

After spending much of his career giving voice to other people’s narratives, McKenzie eventually turned to writing as a way of examining the questions that lingered in his own life—questions of purpose, faith, failure, and the long, uneven process of becoming oneself. His background in journalism gives his writing its precision; his years in production lend it shape; his lived experience brings its emotional depth.

McKenzie currently lives in the American South, where he continues developing new work at the intersection of story, meaning, and human resilience. When he’s not writing, he’s thinking about the power of narrative to heal, connect, and reshape the way we see the world. And watching his kids make a mark in this world.