Kevin Carey


Professional Details

Title Associate Professor
Department English
Office Meier Hall 211c
Phone 978.542.2307
Email kevin.carey@salemstate.edu
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Recent and Upcoming Courses

ENG 820 Workshop in Fiction and Narrative Forms
ENG 827 Scriptwriting
ENG 996 Manuscript Capstone in Writing
ENL 220 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENL 271 Film Analysis
ENL 272 Literature and Film
ENL 322 The Craft of Fiction
ENL 420 Creative Writing Workshop: Scriptwriting
ENL 422 Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction
ENL 500 Directed Study
ENL 505 Creative Writing Thesis
ENL 510 Portfolio Seminar

Professional Biography

Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing. Books include: The Beach People (2014), The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020). His poems have twice appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller. His first crime novel, Murder in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new middle grade novel Junior Miles and the Junkman will be published in September of 2023 from Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing. Kevincareywriter.com