Kevin Cantwell

B. 1957
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Kevin Cantwell is the author of the poetry collections One Thousand Sheets of Rice Paper (Mercer University Press, 2023), Something Black in the Green Part of Your Eye (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2002), and One of Those Russian Novels (What Books Press, 2009). He has received a River City Poetry Award, an Agnes Scott Poetry Award, and a James Dickey Prize. Cantwell edited Writing on Napkins at the Sunshine Club: An Anthology of Poets Writing in Macon (Mercer University Press, 2011). He works in the president's office at Middle Georgia State University.