Kevin McIlvoy
Kevin McIlvoy’s novel, One Kind Favor, has just been published by WTAW Press. For twenty-seven years he was editor in chief of the literary magazine, Puerto del Sol. He taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers in creative writing from 1987 to 2019, and as a Regents Professor of creative writing in the New Mexico State University MFA Program from 1981 to 2008.
Reading List
The Bolted Door: On Writing the Ghost Story
As I wrote the novel One Kind Favor, which is a sustained ghost story set in contemporary North Carolina, I put myself through my paces in trying to generatively reflect on what forces bring ghosts from behind bolted doors. Ghosts have always appeared in our country’s fiction, but they have asserted their presence more in […]