Kevin Carey is a poet, fiction writer, playwright, & filmmaker. He has published three books of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016), & Set in Stone (2020), a new novel, Murder in the Marsh (2020), and a chapbook of short stories, The Beach People (2014). His play, The Stand or Sal is Dead, premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport (2018), & his one act plays have been staged at The New Works Festival in Newburyport & The New Hampshire Theater Project. His co-written screenplay Peter’s Song won Best Screenplay at the 2009 New Hampshire Film Festival. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentary films about poets, including Unburying Malcolm Miller which premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2017. His fiction & poetry have appeared in The Red Mountain Review, Silk Road, Rip Tide: Crime Stories by New England Writers, & elsewhere. Kevin Carey is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University.
