Her 2007 monograph on the photography of
Wallace Berman, Wallace Berman Photographs, co-written with
Lorraine Wild,
[13] was selected as one of the 50 best art books of the year by the
AIGA.[14] In 2009, she curated She: Work by
Wallace Berman &
Richard Prince, for the
Michael Kohn Gallery in
Los Angeles.[15] In 2010 McKenna curated The Beautiful and the Damned, a show of photographs of L.A.'s early punk scene by Ann Summa.[16] Her 2011 survey exhibition of photographer Charles Brittin was accompanied by the artist's monograph, Charles Brittin: West & South.[17]
In 2010 she partnered with Donna Wingate and
Lorraine Wild to launch the publishing imprint Foggy Notion Books.[18]
In October 2015 it was announced that she was co-writing filmmaker
David Lynch's "quasi-memoir" titled Life & Work.[19] The book, retitled Room to Dream, was published in June 2018.[20][21] She has participated in Lynch's "Festival of Disruption," doing onstage interviews with Lynch,
Frank Gehry,
Ed Ruscha,
Sheryl Lee and others.[22]
Musician
Dan Hicks spent hours on the phone with McKenna every Friday for several years before his death in 2016, telling her his life story. She edited the conversations into Hicks' posthumous autobiography, I Scare Myself, published in 2017.[23]
Books
Book of Changes, Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2001.
ISBN9781560974178
Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & his Circle, written and edited with Michael Duncan, New York, New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2005.
ISBN1933045108
Wallace Berman Photographs, written and edited with
Lorraine Wild, Santa Monica, CA, RoseGallery/Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2007.
ISBN1933045612
Notes From a Revolution: Com/co, the Diggers & the Haight, edited with David Hollander, Los Angeles, California: Foggy Notion Books, 2012.
ISBN9780983587033
Room to Dream, written with David Lynch, Random House, 2018.
ISBN9780399589195