Kevin González was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, his fiction has been awarded the Narrative Prize, the Playboy College Fiction Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Award, and an NEA Fellowship. His stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Narrative, Playboy, Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, and American Short Fiction, and have been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best New American Voices. He is the author of a collection of poems, Cultural Studies, and co-editor of The New Census: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. He teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Kevin González
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2020
Studios
Chapman
Kevin González worked in the Chapman studio.
Chapman Studio was funded by Mrs. Alice Woodrough Chapman in memory of her husband, composer George Alexander Chapman. Symmetrically massed, the building is stuccoed on the exterior with a natural, unpainted cement. Its unusual half-timbered ornament consists of slender, knotty spruce poles painted a dark green color. A central, peak-roofed entrance porch appears on the north side…