Kevin Coyle

A Queens native, Kevin earned a BA in Journalism from New York University and a JD from the Fordham University School of Law. After enduring five Vermont winters, Kevin, his wife Amanda, and their sons Matthew and Michael moved south of the Mason-Dixon Line and have never looked back. They live in the Greenville area of South Carolina, while Kevin “telecommutes” to his office in Vermont.

Kevin has been writing since the third grade, when he made his debut with a science-fiction short story entitled “The People from the Purple Planet.” He taped together the six individual sheets of looseleaf paper to make a poster and drew spaceships in crayon over the lackluster prose. This bit of showmanship caught his teacher’s attention and was reflected in his grade.

Kevin was named the “Featured Writer” for the Spring 2006 edition of Ampersand, in which one of his short stories was published. His stories have also appeared in NOVA Science Fiction Magazine, Noneuclidean Cafe, The Writers Post Journal, Buffalo Carp, RAGAD, Bewildering Stories, the premiere issue of The Literary Bone, Johnny America, Poor Mojo’s Almanac(k), the first two issues of moonShine review, Catfish Stew, and the fiction supplement to the Washington Square News. Two of his stories placed in the quarter-finals (the top 10-15% of all entries per quarter) for the first and fourth quarters of the 2005 L. Ron Hubbard’s “Writers of the Future” Contest.

Another one of Kevin’s stories has been accepted for publication in the next issue of Metamorphoses. He is hard at work on an alternate-history novel, entitled The Saga of Snorri the Priest, about the Norse settlement of America. He has also recently taken up acting.

Kevin has been a member of the South Carolina Writers Workshop since 2002. This is his first term on the SCWW Board of Directors. He is grateful for the opportunity to serve as co-editor of The Petigru Review, SCWW’s new-and-improved literary journal. Contact Kevin here.

Leaning into the wind near Grindavik, Iceland (August 2005)