Kevin Pilkington

Kevin Pilkington is the author of ten poetry collections, including Playing Poker With Tennessee Williams (2021); Where You Want To Be: New and Selected Poems (2015), an IPPY Award Winner; The Unemployed Man Who Became a Tree (2011), which was a Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award finalist; In the Eyes of a Dog (2009), which received the New York Book Festival Award; and Spare Change (1997), a National Poetry Series selection. He is also the author of the novels Summer Shares (2012) and Taking On Secrets (forthcoming, 2022). 

Pilkington’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Harvard Review, Poetry magazine, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Yankee, Hayden’s Ferry, Columbia, and North American Review. His poetry has appeared in many anthologies, including Birthday Poems: A Celebration, Western Wind, and Contemporary Poetry of New England. 

Pilkington has taught and lectured at numerous colleges and universities including the New School, Manhattanville College, MIT, University of Michigan, Susquehanna University, and Georgia Tech. He is a member of the writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.