Jack McKenty

Jack McKenty appears to have been a science fiction writer active in the early 1950s. Archival and catalog sources consistently link him with speculative fiction, and his story "$1,000 a Plate" was published in Galaxy in October 1954 before later appearing in The Fifth Galaxy Reader.

Project Gutenberg also lists "Wait for Weight" by Jack McKenty as a science fiction story from the same period, suggesting that his known work belongs to the mid-century magazine tradition of short, idea-driven SF. Reliable biographical details beyond his publications are hard to confirm from the sources I found, so most of what survives publicly seems to be his fiction rather than a well-documented personal history.