The author
Kevin Keck
Writer, teacher, North Carolina native, and longtime keeper of the Doyle family secrets.
Kevin Keck is the author of six previous books, including the memoir Are You There, God? It’s Me. Kevin., the novel Babyhead, and the essay collection Oedipus Wrecked.
His earlier work often leans toward comedy, satire, and the outer limits of candor. Notes from Dry Pond turns toward the emotional landscape of his childhood in Denver, North Carolina: Camp Meeting, family storytelling, changing communities, and the uneasy border between history and invention.
Kevin lives in Charleston, South Carolina, where he writes and teaches.
“With candid wit… Keck wins the reader over with his quirky honesty.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Laugh-out-loud memoir that also offers serious food for thought.”
— Kirkus Reviews
“Everywhere in his poems are little flecks of brilliance, like mica in a boulder.”
— Charles Rafferty
“An amazingly funny young writer.”
— Entertainment Weekly
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