Kevin McGowin
was born in Birmingham, and holds degrees from both Auburn
University at Montgomery and the University of Florida, where he presently
teaches English, American Literature and Humanities. He lives in
Gainesville with his wife Bonnie, a photographer and artist, and his work
has appeared in numerous national magazines and journals, including Oyster
Boy Review, to which he is a regular contributor. He is currently seeking
a publisher for his first collection of stories, With Hasty Reverence,
and a novel, The Basement, and is at work on a second novel, Death of a
Dancing Bear, as well as a nonfiction book on the colorful history of the
antebellum mansion Winter Place in Montgomery, an excerpt of which is
upcoming in Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books.
