Kevin Vaughn is a
27 year-old poet and editor who will, at heart, always be a
Jersey boy. He has been educated at some of the most
esteemed institutions of higher education in the world,
such as Vermont College, Charles University in Prague,
Czech Republic and Columbia University in the City of New
York, where he and MFA candidate in Poetry. A version of
his Columbia thesis manuscript Ritual,
was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry
Prize.
Kevin's poems have recently appeared in Mississippi
Review and WheelHouse
Magazine.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, Kevin served as a
United States Department of State J. William Fulbright
Fellow at the ancient and renowned Jagiellonian University
in Cracow, Poland where he worked to raise awareness of
black American literature as the Director of the
Translation Project in African American Studies. Kevin is
also a Fellow of the Cave Canem Foundation, founded by
American poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady, whose
goal is to support emerging black poets from throughout the
diaspora. Notable among CC's alumnus are: Tyehimba Jess,
Tracy K. Smith, Kevin Young and the winner of the 2007
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Natasha Trethewey.
Kevin has worked as
an editor at the pillar of American poetry
periodicals: PARNASSUS: Poetry in
Review,
under the tutelage of the legendary editor and academic
Herbert Leibowitz. Current and former "Parnassians,"
include, Miles Becker, Ben Downing, Adam Dressler, Quinn
Latimer and David Yezzi.
Kevin has written
in America, France, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic. In
addition to his Fulbright, during 2007, he was awarded
artistic residencies at the Cat'Art Centre
International de Recherche et de Création
in
the southwest of France and the Montana Artists refuge in
Basin, MT. He currently lives in Paris, France.