Kevin McFadden’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Antioch Review and The Southern Review. His manuscript, Hardscrabble, was runner-up for the Academy of American Poets 2006 Walt Whitman Award, judged by Kay Ryan. His poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 1, 5 and 14. [bio updated 2008]