Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian (2012)

Kevin Killian (born December 24, 1952 in Smithtown (New York) , † June 15, 2019 in San Francisco ) was an American author , poet and playwright .

Life

In the 1970s, Killian studied at Stony Brook University and moved to San Francisco in 1980. He wrote several novels, poems, short stories and numerous plays. He was chairman of the Small Press Traffic organization in California. In June 2019, Killian died of cancer at the age of 66. He was married to queer writer Dodie Bellamy for 34 years .

Awards and nominations

• 2010: Lambda Literary Award , category "Gay Erotica", awarded for Impossible Princess
• 2009: Lambda Literary Award, category "Gay Poetry", nominated as editor (together with Peter Gizzi ) with My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
• 1997: PEN Oakland / Josephine Miles Literary Award for Little Men

Works (selection)

Short stories

• Little Men , Hard PressInc, 1996, ISBN 978-1-889097-01-5 .
• Argento series , Krupskaya, 2001, ISBN 978-1-928650-10-2 .
• I Cry Like a Baby , Painted Leaf Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-891305-66-5 .
• Action Kylie , In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni, 2008, ISBN 978-1-934639-00-9 .
• Impossible Princess , City Lights Publishers, 2009, ISBN 978-0-87286-528-0 .
• Tweaky Village , Wonder, 2014, ISBN 978-0-9895985-2-1 .
• Tony Greene Era , Wonder, 2017, ISBN 978-0-9895985-7-6 .

Novels

• Shy , Crossing Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-89594-348-4 .
• Bedrooms Have Windows , Amethyst Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-927200-01-1 .
• Arctic Summer , (1st Hard Candy ed.). New York: Hard Candy Books, 1997, ISBN 978-1-56333-514-3 .
• Spreadeagle , Portland, Oregon: Publication Studio, 2012, ISBN 978-1-935662-09-9 .

biography

• Poet Be Like God (together with Lewis Ellingham ), Wesleyan University Press, 1998 ISBN 978-0-8195-5308-9 .

Edited works

• The Wild Creatures by Sam D'Allesandro , Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9763411-1-6 .
• My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (jointly edited with Peter Gizzi ), Wesleyan University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8195-7090-1 .
• The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945–1985 (jointly edited with David Brazil ), Kenning Editions, 2010, ISBN 978-0-9767364-5-5 .
• Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977–1997 (jointly edited with Dodie Bellamy ), Nightboat Books, 2017, ISBN 978-1-937658-65-6 .

Stage plays

• Stone Marmalade (together with Leslie Scalapino ), Singing Horse Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-935162-16-5 .
• Often (together with Barbara Guest ), Kenning Editions, 2001, ISBN 978-0-01-526342-3 .
• Island of Lost Souls , Nomados, 2004, ISBN 978-0-9731521-4-2 .

Web links

Commons : Kevin Killian  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Kevin Killian in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Kevin Killian in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Links to online works by Kevin Killian
• Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, beincke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Academy of American Poets: About Kevin Killian. In: poets.org. December 19, 2019, accessed June 29, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Meg Elison: SF author and poet Kevin Killian dies. In: ebar.com. June 19, 2019, accessed June 29, 2020 .