Kevin Wilson (writer)

Kevin Wilson (born 1978 in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States) is an American author of short stories and university teachers.

Life

Wilson joined the University of Florida awarded the degree of Master of Fine Arts and now teaches at the University of the South in his hometown. He is married and the couple has a son.

Wilson is the author of short stories that were printed in literary journals such as Ploughshares, Tin House, One Story and the Cincinnati Review. In 2009 they had a choice in book form, the Wilson's first novel, The Family Fang followed in 2011.

Honors and Awards

• Fellowship of the MacDowell Colony.
• Fellow at Yaddo.
• Fellow at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
• Alex Award from the American Library Association.
• Shirley Jackson Award.

Publications

• 2009: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth. Ecco Press, Manhattan, New York City, ISBN 978-0-06-157902-8.
• 2011: The Family Fang. Ecco Press, Manhattan, New York City, ISBN 978-0-06-157903-5. 2012: The collected embarrassments of our parents in the order of their premiere, novel; translated by Xenia Osthelder. Luchterhand Verlag, Munich, ISBN 978-3-630-87401-2.