Kenny Fries is the author of In the Province of the Gods (Creative Capital Literature Award), The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and Body, Remember: A Memoir. He edited Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out and was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera to write the libretto for The Memory Stone. His books of poems include In the Gardens of Japan, Desert Walking, and Anesthesia. His work has appeared in many places including The New York Times, Granta, The Believer, and Literary Hub. Twice a Fulbright Scholar (Japan and Germany), he was a Creative Arts Fellow of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts; received a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts and Literary Arts Fellowship; as well as grants from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College.
Kenny Fries, SSB Away 2020 Tuscany Artist in Residence
In a series of six interrelated short videos, Kenny Fries reads excerpts from his forthcoming book Stumbling over History: Disability and the Holocaust.
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SSB is proud to present a reading by Kenny Fries—“Disability Can Save Your Life”—a timely poetic expression of the wisdom and experience of living a “disabled” life.
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Some Serious Business has selected author Kenny Fries for a month-long residency in the fall of 2020 at Podere Malabiccia, a 40-acre working olive-oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, Tuscany.
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Kenny Fries received the Creative Capital literature grant for his new book, In the Province of the Gods. He is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir, and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory, which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
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