Kevin Cantwell is the author of One of Those Russian Novels (What Books Press, 2009) and Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye (New Issues Press, 2002). His poetry has been published in The Paris Review, The New Republic, Poetry, Irish Pages, and Five Points, for which he was winner of the 2012 James Dickey Poetry Prize. His poems have been Poem of the Week for RTÉ Ireland and The Irish Times; his work has been reprinted on Poetry Daily and Poetry Foundation’s Poem of the Day. He is associate provost and dean of graduate studies at Middle Georgia State University where he is professor of English.  

Photo by John S. Cantwell