Gary Kissick
Upon graduating from the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, Gary Kissick settled in Hawaii, where he taught English at the University, wrote rock reviews for a surfing magazine, and a freelanced as a nature photographer. His writing has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Chronicle and numerous reviews. His first book, Outer Islands, was winner of the University of Hawaii’s Pacific Poetry Prize. He now lives in Suffolk, where he teaches for the University of Maryland in Europe.
Books by Gary Kissick
Winter in Volcano
Felicia Mattos is Portuguese, young, tormentingly beautiful and a student at a small Catholic college in Honolulu. Cullen Kinnell has escaped to Hawaii from Brooklyn, and earns a precarious living as an English teacher. He is an intelligent, humorous man, and certainly old enough to know better than to play with fire.
But days in the classroom, transfixed by Felicia’s impish racoon eyes and wickedly sullen mouth, have nurtured a terrible infatuation.
World Rights: Random House (UK)
Please Set Me Free So I Can Destroy the Earth
A blistering and emotive novel that moves seamlessly between the beauty of Hawaii (1973-75) and the horrors of Vietnam (1967-68).
World Rights: JBA