​Kerry James Evans is the author of Nine Persimmons (forthcoming from The Backwaters Press/University of Nebraska, 2026) and Bangalore (Copper Canyon), a Lannan Literary Selection. He earned a PhD in English from Florida State University, an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, and a BA in English from Missouri State University.

The recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, his poems have appeared in Agni, The American Poetry Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals.

He is an Associate Professor of English at Georgia College & State University, where he teaches and serves as the Program Coordinator for the MFA and undergraduate creative writing programs. He is the Coeditor & Managing Editor of Peach, launching spring 2027. He lives in Milledgeville, Georgia.