Caitlin Eliza (C.E.) McKenna
@ce-mckenna.bsky.social
Writer & Software Engineering Consultant. UCRiverside - Palm Desert MFA candidate.
Reed BA ‘08 | OSU MA ‘12
Boulder County Historic Preservation Advisory Board
Reed Alumni Board
Boulder, CO mostly.
cemckenna.com
There’s no such thing as a bad pun.
Reed BA ‘08 | OSU MA ‘12
Boulder County Historic Preservation Advisory Board
Reed Alumni Board
Boulder, CO mostly.
cemckenna.com
There’s no such thing as a bad pun.
Clouds today looked like someone just gave up on making earth all that detailed and decided to just scribble in the notebook margins
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Clouds today looked like someone just gave up on making earth all that detailed and decided to just scribble in the notebook margins
Found ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER at the @boulderbookstore.bsky.social this weekend!
If you haven’t picked up a copy of our climate change crime fiction anthology, you can find it at your local independent bookstore 📚
#mystery #crime #shortstories #bookstore #boulder #localauthor #book #colorado #yay
If you haven’t picked up a copy of our climate change crime fiction anthology, you can find it at your local independent bookstore 📚
#mystery #crime #shortstories #bookstore #boulder #localauthor #book #colorado #yay
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Found ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER at the @boulderbookstore.bsky.social this weekend!
If you haven’t picked up a copy of our climate change crime fiction anthology, you can find it at your local independent bookstore 📚
#mystery #crime #shortstories #bookstore #boulder #localauthor #book #colorado #yay
If you haven’t picked up a copy of our climate change crime fiction anthology, you can find it at your local independent bookstore 📚
#mystery #crime #shortstories #bookstore #boulder #localauthor #book #colorado #yay
Was asked to sign my very first book yesterday. Pretty big deal. But my elder #millennial brain took over and all I could think of to write as a message was “stay cool.”
Thanks @rhppress.bsky.social and @curtisippolito.bsky.social for teeing up such a big moment for me 😂
#onfireandunderwater
Thanks @rhppress.bsky.social and @curtisippolito.bsky.social for teeing up such a big moment for me 😂
#onfireandunderwater
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Was asked to sign my very first book yesterday. Pretty big deal. But my elder #millennial brain took over and all I could think of to write as a message was “stay cool.”
Thanks @rhppress.bsky.social and @curtisippolito.bsky.social for teeing up such a big moment for me 😂
#onfireandunderwater
Thanks @rhppress.bsky.social and @curtisippolito.bsky.social for teeing up such a big moment for me 😂
#onfireandunderwater
Today is a big day. I’m finally registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections
AND
it’s #pubday for the anthology ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER, from @rhppress.bsky.social, edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social!
Oh, also I got new glasses :)
AND
it’s #pubday for the anthology ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER, from @rhppress.bsky.social, edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social!
Oh, also I got new glasses :)
September 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Today is a big day. I’m finally registered to vote in UK parliamentary elections
AND
it’s #pubday for the anthology ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER, from @rhppress.bsky.social, edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social!
Oh, also I got new glasses :)
AND
it’s #pubday for the anthology ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER, from @rhppress.bsky.social, edited by @curtisippolito.bsky.social!
Oh, also I got new glasses :)
Sometimes, you just gotta break some shit.
September 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sometimes, you just gotta break some shit.
September 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Morning moose!
August 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Morning moose!
Lucha libre came to Romero’s in Lafayette for one hell of a show!
July 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Lucha libre came to Romero’s in Lafayette for one hell of a show!
Photos coming out from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim show the historic Grand Canyon Lodge burning.
This is the second time the lodge burned. The first was in 1932. It was rebuilt using much of the original stonework in 1936-37.
Sources: www.reddit.com/r/grandcanyo...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
This is the second time the lodge burned. The first was in 1932. It was rebuilt using much of the original stonework in 1936-37.
Sources: www.reddit.com/r/grandcanyo...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
July 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Photos coming out from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim show the historic Grand Canyon Lodge burning.
This is the second time the lodge burned. The first was in 1932. It was rebuilt using much of the original stonework in 1936-37.
Sources: www.reddit.com/r/grandcanyo...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
This is the second time the lodge burned. The first was in 1932. It was rebuilt using much of the original stonework in 1936-37.
Sources: www.reddit.com/r/grandcanyo...
www.nps.gov/articles/000...
We drove from Boulder to Great Falls, MT to Water Valley, Alberta to Missoula, MT to Jackson, WY and nothing smelled like home til we pulled off the highway outside Steamboat Springs and took a wee wander.
Colorado, I just can’t quit you.
Colorado, I just can’t quit you.
July 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
We drove from Boulder to Great Falls, MT to Water Valley, Alberta to Missoula, MT to Jackson, WY and nothing smelled like home til we pulled off the highway outside Steamboat Springs and took a wee wander.
Colorado, I just can’t quit you.
Colorado, I just can’t quit you.
Ah, the Tetons, truly one of the worst insults to ever be lobbed at French women.
July 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Ah, the Tetons, truly one of the worst insults to ever be lobbed at French women.
I’ve been reading Caroline Fraser’s MURDERLAND throughout our WY/AB/BC/MT vacation. I was almost finished when we passed the Anaconda smelter’s smoke stack in the distance and I wondered what depraved violence might have happened in this beautiful place.
10/10 book. I can’t stop reading it.
10/10 book. I can’t stop reading it.
July 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’ve been reading Caroline Fraser’s MURDERLAND throughout our WY/AB/BC/MT vacation. I was almost finished when we passed the Anaconda smelter’s smoke stack in the distance and I wondered what depraved violence might have happened in this beautiful place.
10/10 book. I can’t stop reading it.
10/10 book. I can’t stop reading it.
It was a three-moose kinda morning.
June 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It was a three-moose kinda morning.
Sums it up.
June 25, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Sums it up.
I missed the residency at @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social so much I decided to spend my birthday poolside. We’ve got Mark Haskell Smith’s MOIST for me and @sgj.bsky.social THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER for Miles. Fresh cherries. Cold soda water.
Sun’s out. Guns out.
Sky’s out. Thighs out.
It’s a good day.
Sun’s out. Guns out.
Sky’s out. Thighs out.
It’s a good day.
June 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I missed the residency at @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social so much I decided to spend my birthday poolside. We’ve got Mark Haskell Smith’s MOIST for me and @sgj.bsky.social THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER for Miles. Fresh cherries. Cold soda water.
Sun’s out. Guns out.
Sky’s out. Thighs out.
It’s a good day.
Sun’s out. Guns out.
Sky’s out. Thighs out.
It’s a good day.
Topper installed! Let the summer truck camping commence!
June 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Topper installed! Let the summer truck camping commence!
Grabbed a @gabino.bsky.social original in DIA on the way to @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social — the hottest MFA residency in the world (unless there’s a residency in Kuwait…)
June 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Grabbed a @gabino.bsky.social original in DIA on the way to @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social — the hottest MFA residency in the world (unless there’s a residency in Kuwait…)
Even the snakes got their winter coats out.
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Even the snakes got their winter coats out.
I don’t love giving myself inflexible identities. Attaching yourself to a group often means you stop criticizing it. You stop checking in with yourself. You go to lengths to protect that core descriptor.
But “Good Auntie?” That one, I’ll take to my end.
But “Good Auntie?” That one, I’ll take to my end.
June 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I don’t love giving myself inflexible identities. Attaching yourself to a group often means you stop criticizing it. You stop checking in with yourself. You go to lengths to protect that core descriptor.
But “Good Auntie?” That one, I’ll take to my end.
But “Good Auntie?” That one, I’ll take to my end.
Isssssss a coldsssssssneeeek
June 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Isssssss a coldsssssssneeeek
Storm over the Indian Peaks.
Spring in the Rocky Mountains is moody. It keeps your temperature regulation honest and your senses occupied.
Spring in the Rocky Mountains is moody. It keeps your temperature regulation honest and your senses occupied.
June 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Storm over the Indian Peaks.
Spring in the Rocky Mountains is moody. It keeps your temperature regulation honest and your senses occupied.
Spring in the Rocky Mountains is moody. It keeps your temperature regulation honest and your senses occupied.
I made my first friend in this yard.
It was the summer of ‘89 and we drove over with my great-grandparents from the ranch in Ward. A cluster of kids ran around, getting dirty. Pretending.
The magic words, then, as now, were, “Hi, I’m Caitlin. Wanna be friends?”
Works every time.
It was the summer of ‘89 and we drove over with my great-grandparents from the ranch in Ward. A cluster of kids ran around, getting dirty. Pretending.
The magic words, then, as now, were, “Hi, I’m Caitlin. Wanna be friends?”
Works every time.
June 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I made my first friend in this yard.
It was the summer of ‘89 and we drove over with my great-grandparents from the ranch in Ward. A cluster of kids ran around, getting dirty. Pretending.
The magic words, then, as now, were, “Hi, I’m Caitlin. Wanna be friends?”
Works every time.
It was the summer of ‘89 and we drove over with my great-grandparents from the ranch in Ward. A cluster of kids ran around, getting dirty. Pretending.
The magic words, then, as now, were, “Hi, I’m Caitlin. Wanna be friends?”
Works every time.
June 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM