db mcneill

Hello! It’s good to meet you!

I’m db mcneill, a short (no like, really), neurodivergent writer and artist with anxiety and frontal lobe injury that mimics ADHD. I’ve got the whole alphabet soup! I’m also a mom, a retired environmental scientist, and my works spans children’s stories to horror and beyond. I live in Colorado, and I have been here a long, long, long, long time. 

My stories have been published in anthologies, e-zines and literary journals. My middle-grade science-fiction fairytale The Pied Piper of St. May is available on Amazon, and you can support my work and earn my undying (like, really forever) gratitude at Kofi for less than the cost of a candy bar. Once upon a time, one of my stories was a finalist for Glimmertrain’s Short Story Award and two others won Allegory eZine Honorable Mentions. I was also the proud recipient of a Sentient Squid scholarship from Writing the Other, a wonderful writing resource run by wonderful people. I make a mean Southern-style baked mac & cheese too, but it comes out a little different every time.

I illustrated Paloodle Doodle, a naive  kishōtenketsu created by my eldest son when he was 4 years old, a time when a young boy’s heart yearns to see a T. Rex eating a chocolate chip cookie. I also have a RedBubble shop where you can get cool stuff with images I created. I sign most of my art using the name “Buckheister”, which is a name I held onto from a previous life, of which I have had many. 

You can contact me using the form below. Of course, you can always leave a comment too. Definitely drop me a note one way or the other if you spot any spelling or grammar errors. I’m editing my own work for this here web page, and that’s some risky business.