Kevin Boyle’s first collection, A Home for Wayward Girls, won the New Issues Poetry Prize, judged by Rodney Jones, and his chapbook, The Lullaby of History, was selected by David Rivard for the Campbell Award. His book Astir (Jacar Press) was a finalist in the Brockman-Campbell Book Award Contest, judged by Barbara Hamby.

His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Greensboro Review, Hollins Critic, Michigan Quarterly Review, National Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, North American Review, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, and Virginia Quarterly Review.

Kevin grew up in Philadelphia and received degrees from Penn, Boston, and Iowa. He has taught writing and literature in New York, Iowa and North Carolina, where he currently lives with his wife.