Simmonds, Kevin

Kevin Simmonds is a writer and musician originally from New Orleans. His writing appears in Asia Literary Review, Chroma, FIELD, Fuselit, jubilat, Kyoto Journal, Massachusetts Review, Poetry and elsewhere. He wrote the musical score for the documentary Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica which won a 2009 Emmy Award, and Wisteria: Twilight Songs for the Swamp Country, which opened Poetry International at London's Royal Festival Hall and was the subject of a 2007 BBC radio documentary. He has received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Cave Canem, Fulbright, Jack Straw, C...