Kevin Canty (author)

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Kevin Canty
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Canty in 2018
Born (1953-01-17) January 17, 1953 (age 72)
Lakeport, California, U.S.
OccupationNovelist and short story writer
Education University of Arizona (MFA)
Genreliterary fiction
Relatives Brendan Canty (brother)
James Canty (brother)

Kevin Canty (born January 17, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a faculty member in the English department at the University of Montana at Missoula, where he currently resides. [1] Canty received his master's degree in English from the University of Florida in 1990. [2] He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1993.

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Personal life

Kevin Canty is the brother of the musicians Brendan Canty and James Canty. [3]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Happy Endings

Collections

  • A Stranger in This World (1994)
  • Honeymoon (2001)
  • Where the Money Went (2009)

List of stories

TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collected
Mayfly2013Canty, Kevin (January 28, 2013). "Mayfly". The New Yorker . Vol. 88, no. 45. pp. 64–68. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
Story, With Bird2014Canty, Kevin (October 6, 2014). "Story, With Bird". The New Yorker . Retrieved 2015-07-27.
God's Work2016Canty, Kevin (April 4, 2016). "God's Work". The New Yorker . Retrieved 2016-05-03.

References

  1. "Kevin Canty | Penguin Random House".
  2. "Some Alumni & Alumnae of MFA@FLA". Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
  3. Sadler, Brook (18 November 1994). "Canty Could". Washington City Paper . Retrieved 9 May 2019.