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Kevin Craft
He hails from the mid-Atlantic zones of the USA.
Born in Delaware and raised in southern New Jersey, he holds a Bachelor of Arts in both English and French from the University of Maryland, a Master of Fine Arts in English from the University of Washington.
He has also studied drama at the University of Sheffield in Great Britain and romance languages at the Universitè de Perpignan in France.
His poems have appeared in many reviews and journals, including Poetry, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Verse, Antioch Review, Cream City Review, Willow Springs, Pontoon, Crab Creek Review, Puerto del Sol, and Poetry Northwest.
He was a book editor and contributing writer for the late great Northwest writer's periodical, Wordscape, as well as an associate poetry editor at Seattle Review.
Craft was twice featured in the Mississippi Review Prize Poems of the Year (2000, 2001), was a Bread Loaf Scholar in 1996, and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), The Camargo Foundation (France), and the Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust.
He currently resides in Seattle and teaches English and Creative Writing at Everett Community College and at the University of Washington's Rome Center in Italy.
Kevin Craft's first book of poems, Solar Prominence, won the 2004 Gorsline Prize from Cloudbank Books as judged by Northwest poet Vern Rutsala.