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Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published 7 books: a chapbook of fiction from Red Bird Chapbooks, The Beach People (2014) and three books of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020) all from CavanKerry Press. His poems have appeared three times on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. 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. His crime novel, Murder in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new novel for young readers, Junior Miles and the Junkman was published in September of 2023 from Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing. A new collection of poetry Olympia Heights (co-written with poet Colleen Michaels) about the Greek Gods living in a modern gated community was published in October (23) from the Lily Poetry Review. Kevin is currently shooting and editing a film version of a play he wrote with poet R.G. Evans in May 2024. The film is called MFA: The Terminal Degree, another murder mystery comedy. Kevin is also co-editor of Molecule: A Tiny Lit Mag.