Roy Kesey – About

Roy Kesey was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives with his wife and children in Peru. He’s the author of a novella called Nothing in the World (winner of the Bullfight Media Little Book Award), a collection of short stories called All Over (a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award), and a historical guide to the city of Nanjing, China.

His work has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, New Sudden Fiction, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and The Future Dictionary of America, and in more than sixty magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review and Ninth Letter.

For a list of selected publication credits, awards, reviews, profiles and interviews, please click here.

For a high-res cover shot taken by Lucy Cavender, please click here.

For a non-high-res non-cover shot taken by Adam Pillsbury in the flooded military tunnel complex beneath Beijing, please click here. (Note excellent headlamp.)

He welcomes befriendingment here and here.

He can be reached via email at rkesey@gmail.com.

He can also be reached through his literary agent:

Maria Massie
Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
27 West 20th Street
Suite 305
New York, NY 10011
info@lmqlit.com
(212) 352-2055