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Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey’s books include the poetry collections: The One Fifteen to Penn Station, Jesus Was a Homeboy, Set in Stone, the co-written Olympus Heights, and the collaboration Revere Beach Stories: Poems and Photographs. His poems have appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day.  He has published three books of fiction: The Beach People, Murder in the Marsh and Junior Miles and the Junkman which won the Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers and has been chosen for the Pen Faulkner Writers in the Schools Program in Washington, DC. Kevin is a recent finalist for the Montana Prize in fiction and a finalist for the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller, which premiered at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2017. Kevin has also co-authored a screenplay Peter’s Song which won Best Screenplay at the New Hampshire Film Festival in 2009. A stage play The Stand or Sal is Dead, a murder mystery comedy, premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport, MA in June, 2018. Kevin recently co-directed and produced a murder mystery comedy film MFA: The Terminal Degree, was recently selected for the LA Film Awards. Kevin is also co-editor of Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag.