There are poems that halt the spin of the world, like a finger pressed to the globe, just for a moment. 

The Integrity Cure

Dell McKinley (they/them) is a writer, editor, and indie publisher. They are a former Manager of Hard to Find Books, Marketing Manager of Otago University Press, National Sales Representative for McGraw Hill, and Manager of Boosted, New Zealand’s crowdfunding platform for the arts.

Qualifications include a BA in English Literature and Art History from University of Auckland, a BA Honours from University of Canterbury, a Master of Information Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, and a Diploma in Book Publishing, Editing and Proofreading from the NZ Institute of Business Studies. They conducted doctoral research in crowdsourcing cultural heritage, and studied Book History as a scholarship recipient at New College, University of Oxford.

Dell is author of The Integrity Cure (Thorndon Press, 2025), a contributor to the anthology Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree and child-adjacent (Massey University Press, 2024), and was longlisted for the 2025 Katherine Mansfield competition. Find out more at thorndonpress.com

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