Kevin Killian (1952–2019) was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include Padam Padam: Collected Poems (Nightboat Books, 2025) and Selected Amazon Reviews (2024). He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (1998). With Dodie Bellamy, he co-edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977–1997 (2017).
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