Writers@Grinnell: Kevin Gonzalez

Author Kevin Gonzalez will present at 4:15 p.m. Monday, April 6, in the Kallaus Lecture Hall, ARH Room 102.

Kevin A. Gonzalez was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and holds MFA degrees from the University of Wisconsin (in poetry) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (in fiction). He's the author of a collection of poems, Cultural Studies, and the co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. His fiction has been awarded the Narrative Prize, the Playboy Fiction Prize, and the Michener-Copernicus Award, and his stories have appeared in Playboy, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Narrative Magazine, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Best New American Voices.  He edits the literary magazine jubilat and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.