McKie Campbell has been a hot-tar roofer, a scuba instructor, a police officer, and an investigator for a sheriff’s department. He lived in Alaska for thirty years and traveled extensively throughout the state, where he worked for the legislature, was Deputy Chief-of-Staff for the Governor, and was the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In Washington D.C., Campbell was the Staff Director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
He was a Visiting Fellow at the Energy Policy Center of the University of Chicago and served on the Board of ConservAmerica. Campbell continues as a Senior Advisor at BlueWater Strategies, an energy and natural resources consulting firm he owned prior to selling it so he could devote more time to writing. He’s also an avid pickup basketball player and an active outdoorsman and sailor, having sailed across the Atlantic and won the Spirit of Adventure - Around Admiralty distance race more times than anyone else. He is an active member of Mystery Writers of America.
McKie is pronounced with a long i to rhyme with McRye or McSky.
You can follow McKie at McKieCampbell dot com.