Meet Kerry James Evans: Evans is the author of Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Florida State University, an MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a BA in English from Missouri State University. The recipient of a 2015 NEA Fellowship and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, his poems have appeared in Agni, Narrative, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals. He lives in Milledgeville, Georgia, where he teaches in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University and serves as the poetry editor for Arts & Letters.
Hear Evans read his poetry pieces “Casserole Island” and “Mississippi Snow” during the Issue 91 Release Party, Saturday, March 4th at 6pm PST!
