Kevin Carey is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published three books – a chapbook of fiction, The Beach People (Red Bird Chapbooks) and two books of poetry from CavanKerry Press, The One Fifteen to Penn Station and Jesus Was a Homeboy which was selected as an Honor Book for the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize. Kevin is also a filmmaker and playwright. His latest documentary film, Unburying Malcolm Miller, about a deceased Salem, MA poet, premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2016. His new stage play The Stand or Sal is Dead, a murder mystery comedy, opened in Newburyport, MA. at The Actor’s Studio on June 21st – 24th 2018. Kevin’s fiction has recently appeared in Automata and The Evening Street Review. A new collection of poems Set in Stone is forthcoming in May of 2020.