Mckey was the son of a teacher and an operator of the
Caracas Metro. When he graduated from high school, he spent a few months in a
Catholic seminary proving his religious vocation, when he gave up he decided to study a degree in letters from the
Central University of Venezuela, where he graduated in 2007. In 2008, he was awarded the Fundarte Prize for the
Vocado de orphanage award and in 2016, he won first place in the first edition of the Rafael Cadenas National Young Poetry Contest with the poem
Canto 14. He was also co-editor and collaborator in
Prodavinci; Together with Santiago Acosta, he was co-editor of the newspaper project El Salmón, which was awarded the National Book Prize in 2010, and in whose years he collaborated on the
Papel Literario of the newspaper
El Nacional. In 2014, he participated in the collective project
Nuestra Señora del Jabillo, who mixed poetry with music. It was included in the compilation book "Nuevo País de las Letras" compiled by Antonio López Ortega, where it was listed among the 34 best Venezuelan writers of the generation born in the eighties. Mckey was included as an author in
PROVEA's compilation of Venezuelan poetry between 1920 and 2018 "Against Repression." On 28 April, the
Public Ministry of Venezuela announced that it would open an investigation against Willy for the allegations of sexual abuse, along with musicians
Alejandro Sojo and
Tony Maestracci. On 29 April, Mckey killed himself in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, jumping from the ninth floor of a building. He left three unpublished poetic projects:
Santo, a Yoruba-western; CoMYK, a quadricromic epic with poems like
éste o éste otro (this one or this other);
Pleistoceno, eighteen songs against oil; and a non-fiction book,
Ruido (Noise), chronicles on music and violence. ==References==