Kenny Fries

Kenny Fries is the author, most recently, of In the Province of the Gods, which received the Creative Capital literature grant.  His other work includes Body, Remember: A Memoir, and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.  He is the editor of Staring Back:  The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.  His books of poems include Anesthesia, Desert Walking, and In the Gardens of Japan.  He was a Creative Arts Fellow of the Japan/US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, twice a Fulbright Scholar (Japan and Germany), and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council.  He teaches in the MFA in Creative Program at Goddard College.