Kenneth Anderson

Poet

Decatur, GA

Georgia US

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Author's Bio

Ken has an MA in Twentieth-Century American & British Literature from Indiana University. He studied under Miller Williams at Louisiana State University. A Professor Emeritus of English, he has been a consultant for a fine-arts journal and a literary quarterly. He has written a screenplay version of Sea Change, Someone Bought the House on the Island, and The Change, as well as a horror script The Crystal Ball, and is looking for a producer or agent. Most of his books are available at www.amazon.com.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:

The Power of the Feminine "I" (ThreshPress Midwest, 2024)

Books:

The Goose Liver Anthology (Red Ogre Review, 2024)

The Ward at Twilight: Goth Poems (Island of Wak-Wak, 2024)

Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle (Star Books, 2012)

The Statue of Pan: Six Stories, a Novella, and a Novella-Play (Star Books, 2007)

Hasty Hearts (Star Books, 2001)

Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal (Star Books, 1996)

The Intense Lover: A Suite of Poems (Star Books, 1995)

Journals:

ALBA

Bay Windows

Beloit Poetry Journal

Better Than Starbucks

Café Review

Changing Men

Chattahoochee Review

Club Plum Literary Journal

Coffin Bell

Connecticut Poetry Review

Cotton Boll

Dash Literary Journal

Dawntreader

Dekalb Literary Arts Journal

Delta Poetry Review

Discourse

Eleven

Experimental Forest

Fag Rag

Folio

Gay and Lesbian Review

Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide

Gay Sunshine

Georgia State University Review

Habersham Review

Hole in the Head Review

Impossible Archetype

Insight

International Poetry Review

Iris

James White Review

Last Stanza Poetry Journal

Littoral

Lotus-eater

Lullwater Review

Mississippi Review

Modern Literature

Mouth of the Dragon

Nebo

Neologism Poetry Journal

Oddball Magazine

Orbis

Parnassus

Penumbra

Poem

polyphony online

QP: queer poetry

Rabid Oak

Red Ogre Review

RFD

Rudderless Mariner Poetry

Rye Whiskey Review

Sahara

Sangam Literary Magazine

Screen Door Review

Sein und Werden

Sideways Poetry Magazine

Southern Review

Stone Poetry Quarterly

SurVision Magazine

The Lake

The Old Red Kimono

The Smith

The Spectator

The Spoon River Quarterly

Toho Journal

Velvet Mafia

Waiting Room

warning lines

Willawaw Journal

WUSSYMAG

Prizes won:

"Four Poems" Finalist 2021 Saints & Sinners Poetry Contest.

"Leda and the Swan" First Place, Deep South Contest.

Sea Change: An Example of the Pleasure Principle, Finalist 2012 Ferro-Grumley Award & Independent Publishers Editor's Choice.

Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream Journal, Finalist 1996 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

"Oppidum Obscurum" Louisiana State University Caffee Medal for Prose.

"Harness Bells," First Place for Fiction, Louisiana College Writers.

Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream in Two Acts, First Place, 2008 Saints & Sinners Playwriting Contest.

Mattie Cushman: A Psychodrama, First Place in Drama & Grand Prize, Louisiana College Writers.

The Statue of Pan, Official Selection LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival.

Someone Bought the House on the Island (screenplay): Winner of Best First-Time Screenwriter (Feature Script) at Script Awards Los Angeles (Sept. 30, 2022).

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

Raymond Atkins, Ingmar Bergman, Cavafy, Dickinson, Faulkner, Hellman, Hemingway, Hesse, Homer, Ibsen, Isherwood, Lawrence, Plath, Sexton, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Born in:

Pineville, LA

Louisiana

Raised in:

Baton Rouge, LA

Louisiana

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Last update: Oct 12, 2024