McKitterick's technical-writing publications began with astronomy newsletters, science articles, gaming documentation, and advertising materials. For six years, he wrote for the Microsoft Windows Server Resource Kit series and other software publishers, and his contributions to these projects have earned nine Society for Technical Communications (STC) awards. He is a former documentation manager for Microsoft Press publications, and speaks regularly at conferences and training sessions on a variety of writing and editing topics.

McKitterick is also a fiction writer, journalist, poet, essayist, and biographer. Since his work first saw print in 1984, he has sold work to markets including Abyss & Apex, Analog, Artemis, Captain Proton, E-Scape, Extrapolation, Global Warming Aftermaths, Libraries Unlimited, Mythic Circles, NOTA, Resource Guide to American Literature, Science Fiction Studies, Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction, Ruins: Extraterrestrial, Sentinels In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Top Deck magazine, various TSR publications, Visual Journeys, Westward Weird, and a bowling poem anthology. Two of his poems were set to music. He is currently working on a new novel, a manual for building a sports car, and a technical-writing textbook. In 1995, he won KU's William Herbert Carruth Memorial Prize for Poetry. Since 1992, he teaches fiction writing at the CSSF Writer’s Workshop for Science Fiction.

His debut novel, Transcendence, was released in November, 2010, from Hadley Rille Books. Click the image to the right to download a sample copy from his website!