Kevin Nance is a writer, photographer and arts journalist. A North Carolinian, he was educated at Duke University and has lived for many years in Lexington, Kentucky. His poems have appeared in many literary journals including Cumberland Poetry Review, which awarded him the Robert Penn Warren Poetry Prize, judged by Helen Vendler, in 2003. His two collections of photographs and haiku are Even If (University of Kentucky Arts in HealthCare, 2020) and Midnight (Act of Power Press, 2022). His book of photographs, Geneva's Garden: Four Seasons of Beauty in Lexington's Gratz Park, was published in 2024. As an arts journalist, his work has been published in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Poets & Writers Magazine and other publications. He is co-host (with Jay McCoy) of Kentucky Writers Roundtable, a literary interview program on RadioLex. His photography can be seen at kevinnance.tumblr.com.
