Roy Kesey – About

Roy Kesey was born and raised in northern California, and currently lives with his wife and children in Peru.

He’s the author of a novel called Pacazo (the January 2011 selection for The Rumpus Book Club), a collection of short stories called All Over (a finalist for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, and one of The L Magazine's Best Books of the Decade), a novella called Nothing in the World (winner of the Bullfight Media Little Book Award), and a historical guide to the city of Nanjing, China.

His work has appeared in several anthologies including Best American Short Stories, New Sudden Fiction, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology and The Future Dictionary of America, and in more than eighty magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, The Georgia Review, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review and Ninth Letter.

His translations from Spanish and French into English include work on behalf of Turner Books, the Ministry of Education of Spain, PromPerú, Ferrovial Agromán, and the City of Santander.

For a list of selected publication credits, awards, reviews, profiles and interviews, please click here.

For a high-res cover shot taken by Lucy Cavender, please click here.

For a non-high-res non-cover shot taken by Adam Pillsbury in the flooded military tunnel complex beneath Beijing, please click here. (Note excellent headlamp.)

He welcomes befriendingment here and here.

He can be reached via email at rkesey@gmail.com.

He can also be reached through his literary agent:

Maria Massie
Lippincott Massie McQuilkin
27 West 20th Street
Suite 305
New York, NY 10011
info@lmqlit.com
(212) 352-2055