Kevin Boyle’s first book, A Home for Wayward Girls (2005), was selected by Rodney Jones for the New Issues Poetry Prize. His chapbook, The Lullaby of History, was selected for the Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Prize and was published in 2002. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, Northwest Review, Poetry East, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He teaches at Elon University in North Carolina.