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Kevin Killian (born 1952)〔Bellamy, Dodie. "My Mixed Marriage." ''The Village Voice.'' June 27, 2000.〕 is an American poet, author, editor, and playwright of primarily LGBT literature.〔David Bergman. "Do We Need A Gay Literature?" ''The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide.'' January–February 2010, p. 25; "Stars and Rainbows." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' June 22, 2001, p. 5.〕〔 ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer,'' which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, won the American Book Award for poetry in 2009. His novel, ''Impossible Princess,'' won the 2010 Lambda Literary Award as the best gay erotic fiction work of 2009.〔(Valenzuela, Tony. "Winners of 22nd Annual Lambda Literary Awards." Lambda Literary Foundation. May 28, 2010. ) Accessed 2010-05-28.〕 Killian is also co-founder of the Poets Theater, an influential poetry, stage, and performance group based in San Francisco.〔Pohl, R.D. "Poets Theater at Burchfield Penney Art Center." ''Buffalo News.'' April 2, 2009.〕 ==Life and career== Kevin Killian was raised Roman Catholic and attended a Roman Catholic parochial school run by Franciscan monks.〔〔Wiegand, David and Holt, Patricia. "Books in Brief." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' June 18, 1995.〕 He discussed these experiences in an essay in the edited work ''Wrestling With the Angel'', which describes the experiences of 21 gay men with religion.〔''Wrestling With the Angel: Faith and Religion in the Lives of Gay Men.'' Brian Bouldrey, ed. Reprint ed. New York: Riverhead Trade, 1996.〕 He was also the New York City spelling bee champion.〔Carroll, Jon. "Jon Carroll." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' May 22, 2008.〕 Kevin attended graduate school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY-Stony Brook) in the 1970s, and moved to San Francisco in 1980.〔〔(Bradshaw, Joseph. "Reviving Jack Spicer: An Interview with Kevin Killian." ) ''Rain Taxi.'' Winter 2008. Accessed 2010-05-29.〕 Although he is gay and Dodie Bellamy is a lesbian, the couple married and have an active heterosexual sex life.〔 Killian admired the work of JT LeRoy (later to be revealed as the pen name and persona of author Laura Albert), and held public readings of LeRoy's work in 2000.〔Tudor, Silke. "Night Crawler." ''SF Weekly.'' May 10, 2000; Chonin, Neva. "An Enigmatic Writer Depicts Secret Worlds." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' June 26, 2000.〕 As a beginning novelist, Killian tied for first place in the "Hamming Up Hammett" Dashiell Hammett bad writing contest in San Francisco in 1988.〔("Would-Be Writers With Style, Dash Hammett Up In Contest." ) ''Toledo Blade''. November 1, 1988.〕 Author Dodie Bellamy featured him as a partially fictional character in her vampire novel, ''The Letters of Mina Harker''.〔Benderson, Bruce. "Book Review: ''The Letters of Mina Harker''." ''The Village Voice.'' April 14, 1998.〕 His poetry has appeared in the anthology ''The Best American Poetry 1988'', the magazine ''Discontents'', and the anthology ''Good Times: Bad Trips''.〔Gilbert, Matthew. "Book Review: ''The Best American Poetry 1988''." ''Boston Globe.'' January 27, 1989; Harmanci, Reyhan. "Flip That Bad Trip." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' September 13, 2007.〕 Killian once based an entire volume of poetry on the work of horror film director Dario Argento〔Dark, Jane. "Fever Pitch." ''The Village Voice.'' August 13, 2002.〕 (motivated to do so as a response to the AIDS epidemic).〔 Killian also helped author Alvin Orloff polish chapters of his novel ''Gutterboys''.〔Ford, Dave. "Author Hangs Onto His Mad Cap As He Captures '80s Gay Scene in 'Gutterboys'." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' August 13, 2004.〕 Noted author Edmund White, writing in ''The New York Times'', described his work as "a kind of mandarin American casualness that is peculiar to ... West Coast writers ... a school of refined but deceptively offhand stylists."〔White, Edmund. "Sex and the City." ''The New York Times.'' February 21, 1999.〕 ''The Village Voice'' called ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer,'' which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi, "impeccably edited".〔"The Best Books of 2008." ''The Village Voice.'' December 10, 2008.〕 The work was also highly praised by ''The New York Times.''〔Garner, Dwight. "Sometimes Love Lives Alongside Loneliness." ''New York Times.'' December 24, 2008.〕 Killian's 2009 collection of short gay erotic fiction, ''Impossible Princess'', won the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for best gay men's erotica.〔 It was his third collection of short fiction.〔McMurtrie, John. "Fall Preview." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' September 6, 2009.〕 Killian is founder and former director of Small Press Traffic.〔Schwartz, Stephen. "Alternative S.F. Bookstore Hits Tough Times." ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' August 27, 1992.〕 He now edits the poetry 'zine ''Mirage''.〔Feinstein, Lea. "Twenty-Five Artists, Five Spaces, Five Weeks, and a Multitude of Visions." ''SF Weekly.'' July 26, 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Killian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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