Author2Author with Kevin McIlvoy

Bill welcomes novelist Kevin McIlvoy to the show. Kevin’s novel One Kind Favor is his eighth published book. He has published five novels, A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, Hyssop, At the Gate of All Wonder, and a short story collection, The Complete History of New Mexico. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Missouri Review, and other literary magazines. A collection of his prose poems and short-short stories, 57 Octaves Below Middle C, has been published by Four Way Books. For twenty-seven years he was fiction editor and editor in chief of the national literary magazine, Puerto del Sol. He taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing from 1987 to 2019; and he taught as a Regents Professor of Creative Writing in the New Mexico State University MFA Program from 1981 to 2008.