What is Kevin Killian?
[[File:Killian Kevin by Daniel Nicoletta.jpeg|thumb|Killian in 2012]] '''Kevin Killian''' (December 24, 1952 – June 15, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] poet, author, editor and playwright. Killian, who was [[openly gay]], wrote mostly [[LGBT literature]]. ''My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer'', which he co-edited with [[Peter Gizzi]], won the [[American Book Award]] for poetry in 2009. His collection of short gay erotic fiction, ''Impossible Princess'' (2009), won the 2010 [[Lambda Literary Award]] as the best gay erotic fiction. He was also co-founder of the poetry, stage, and performance group Poets Theater, based in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. Killian was born in [[Long Island]], [[New York (state)|New York]]. He died on June 15, 2019, at the age of 66.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/kevin-killian|title=Kevin Killian 1952–2019|publisher=Academy of American Poets|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref> == Related pages == *[[List of poets from North America]] ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Killian, Kevin}} [[Category:1952 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:American editors]] [[Category:American LGBT people]] [[Category:American novelists]] [[Category:American playwrights]] [[Category:American poets]] [[Category:Gay men]] [[Category:LGBT novelists]] [[Category:LGBT playwrights]] [[Category:LGBT poets]] [[Category:Writers from New York (state)]] {{US-bio-stub}}