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Kenny Fries’s new memoir, “In the Province of the Gods”, which received the Creative Capital literature grant<\/em>, was recently published.\u00a0 He is the author of “The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory,”<\/i>\u00a0which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights<\/em>, as well as the editor of “Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out”. His books of poems include “In the Gardens of Japan”, “Desert Walking”,\u00a0<\/i>and “Anesthesia”. <\/i>He was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera to write the libretto for “The Memory Stone”,<\/i>\u00a0which premiered at the Asia Society Texas Center.\u00a0He was a Creative Arts Fellow<\/em> of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, twice a Fulbright Scholar<\/em> (Japan and Germany) and received grants from the DAAD<\/em>, the Canada Council for the Arts<\/em>, Ontario Arts Council<\/em>, and Toronto Arts Council<\/em>. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program of Goddard College.<\/p>\n

Anesthesia: Poems.\u00a0The Advocado Press, 1996.<\/p>\n

Body, Remember.\u00a0Memoirs. Dutton, 1997.<\/p>\n

Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.\u00a0Memoirs.\u00a0Plume, 1997.<\/p>\n

Desert Walking: \u00a0Poems The Advocado Press, 2000.<\/p>\n

The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory.\u00a0Memoirs.\u00a0Da Capo Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Memory Stone. Houston Grand Opera. 2013<\/p>\n

In the Gardens of Japan: \u00a0A Poem Sequence. Garden Oak Press. 2017.<\/p>\n

In the Province of the Gods.\u00a0 University of Wisconsin Press. 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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