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Kevin O’Rourke

Kevin O’Rourke lives in Seattle, where he works in publishing. His first book, the essay collection As If Seen at an Angle, was published by Tinderbox Editions. A member of the National Book Critics Circle, he is an active literary and arts critic. His criticism has appeared in Ploughshares, the LA Review of Books, and Michigan Quarterly Review. Work on his current project, a book about surviving suicide, has been supported by a grant from 4Culture.