Kerry Shawn Keys

Author's Bio

I am a poet and playwright, but recently writing Wonderscipts. Translator from Portuguese and Lithuanian into English. 40 some books published, many overseas. I divide my time between Vilnius and Pennsylvania hill country. Former Fulbright scholar of African-Brazilian studies.Teach Translation

Publications and Prizes

Books:

The Burning Mirror (Presa :S: Press, 2008), Broken Circle (Virtual Artists Collective, 2005), Conversations With Tertium Quid (Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers, 2004), Tao Te Ching Meditations: Bones & Buzzards (Periplum, 2003), Ch'antscapes (Pine Press, 1998), Krajina Supu Vultures' Country (Votobia, 1996), Decoy's Desire (Pennywhistle Press, 1993), The Hearing (Paco Books, 1992), A Gathering Of Smoke (Three Continents Press, 1989)

Journals:

100 Words, Blue Guitar, Iowa Review, Kayak, Michigan Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, The Nation

Prizes:

National Endowment for Arts Literature Fellowship; Poetry Society of America, Robert H. Winner;Pennsylvania Council On The Arts;Laureate Lithuania Translation

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Wild Tongue by Rebecca Seiferle, Moderrnity And The Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman, Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, The Mysteries by Tony Harrison, Frescoes Of The Skull (Beckett criticism) by James Knowlson and John Pilling

Favorite Books:

Ulysses; Shakespeare's Plays;Odysseus(Homer);Trilce;Bible(King Janes);The Miner's Pale Children;Bhagavad Gita; Divine Comedy;The Calling;Rebellion In The Backlands;After Babel; Lolita

Favorite Authors:

Nabokov; Joyce; Garcia Lorca; Donne;Shakespeare; Homer; Dante;Chuang-Tzu; Robert Bringhurst;Beckett; Chekhov; Keats; Ezra Pound;Vallejo;Cavafy;Pavese; Michael Jennings; Graves; Mishima; Cortazar; Ovid; Thoreau; Heigegger

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Listing last updated: December 4, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Other

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Harrisburg, PA

Raised in:

Harrisburg, PA