Kevin Canty, author portrait
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Kevin Canty

Kevin Canty is the award-winning author of the novels Into the Great Wide OpenNine Below Zero, and Winslow in Love, as well as the short story collections Honeymoon and Other StoriesA Stranger in This World, and Where the Money Went. His most recent book is The Underworld: A Novel, published in 2017. His work has been published in The New YorkerEsquireGQDetailsStory, The New York Times MagazineTin House, and Glimmer Train.  He currently teaches fiction writing at the University of Montana. 

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