Kevin Alexander Boon

Who is Kevin Alexander Boon?

Kevin Boon (born October 13, 1956) is a writer, educator, artist, and musician. He is married to Leslie Marie (née Stephenson) and has three children, two by birth and one by proxy (Simon, Oliver, and Amy). Boon earned a Ph.D. in literature from the University of South Florida (USF) in 1995. Afterwards, he taught as a visiting instructor at USF, then spent one year as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Alabama's main campus in Tuscaloosa. He moved to New York where he continued writing and took a position as an assistant professor of American Studies at the State University of New York's Maritime College. After three years, he moved on to Penn State where he is currently an associate professor of English at the Mont Alto campus. Boon has published articles, poems, screenplays, short stories, music, and film, and is the author/editor of ten books.