Biography
Kevin Craft has been teaching for the UW Creative Writing in Rome program since 1998. He received a Bachelor of Arts in both English and French from the University of Maryland, and a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of Washington. He also studied drama at the University of Sheffield, in Great Britain, and Romance languages at the Université de Perpignan, in France. His first book, Solar Prominence (2005), was selected by Vern Rutsala for the Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared widely in such places as Poetry, AGNI, Verse, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Stranger, and West Branch. He has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Camargo Foundation (France), 4Culture, and Artist Trust. Kevin is the current Editor of Poetry Northwest, the region's oldest literary magazine. He is also the Written Arts Coordinator at Everett Community College, where he has taught English and Creative Writing since 1996. He believes that poems, like good travelers, live in the go-between.