Chris McNally (chrismcnally)

Chris McNally was born in Evanston in 1960. He received his BA from Cal Berkeley and MFA from NYU, but perhaps equally important was the education he received on a commercial salmon fishing boat in southeast Alaska and during six months of study in Togo, West Africa. He was a professional actor in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, performing in New York, Seattle, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tbilisi and Tokyo. A father of two grown sons – also in the arts - he currently divides his time between New York City and Hudson, NY. His poetry has been seen in the Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, Ariel’s Dream and in the self-published Fragments of an America, volume 1. His poem “Hair” was a semi finalist in the 2021 Wild Women Story Contest for Tulip Trees Press. He is the author of a long form historical essay, “Principles for a Profound Leadership.”