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Kevin Wilson

“Writing is…the thing that saved me – being able to transfer what was in my head onto the page.”

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“Wilson’s writing has a Houdini-like perfection…” —Boston Globe

Kevin Wilson’s radically inventive books crackle with wit, vulnerability, and cosmic sadness: sharp social satires animated by profound tenderness for humanity even at its most awful and absurd. He is the author of five novels, including bestsellers Nothing to See Here (which the New York Times declared “wholly original [and] also perfect”) and Now Is Not the Time to Panic. His most recent novel, Run for the Hills, was called “a touching and generous romp of a novel” by the New York Times.

Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine. His 2019 novel, Nothing to See Here, was selected by Jenna Bush Hager for the Read with Jenna book club and named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Washington Post, People, TIME, Entertainment Weekly, and more. His novel, The Family Fang, was adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman and Jason Bateman, and Nothing to See Here was picked up by 3000 Pictures for adaptation in 2025.

His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in two volumes of the Best American Short Stories anthology as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Rivendell, and the KHN Center for the Arts.

Kevin lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of the South.

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