Kevin Carey

Kevin Carey has published five books – a chapbook of fiction, "The Beach People" (Red Bird Chapbooks) three books of poetry from CavanKerry Press, "The One Fifteen to Penn Station," "Jesus Was a Homeboy" which was selected as an Honor Book for the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize, and the recently released "Set in Stone." His new crime novel from Darkstroke Books called "Murder in the Marsh" was be released in October of 2020. Kevin is also a filmmaker and playwright. His last documentary film, "Unburying Malcolm Miller," about a deceased Salem, MA poet, premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2016. His latest full-length stage play “The Stand or Sal is Dead” a murder mystery comedy, premiered in Newburyport, MA. at The Actor’s Studio in June of 2018. His short story “Home for the Holidays,” which appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of the Apple Valley Review, was included in the Best of the Net Anthology and selected as one of the storySouth Million Writers Award top ten online stories of 2011. A new novel, Junior Miles and the Junkman (Regal House and Fitzroy Books) will be out in September of 2023. Kevincareywriter.com