Stephen P. Kiernan

This month, we’re featuring an excerpt from Stephen P. Kiernan’s recent conversation with Bill Kenower. Stephen tells a beautiful story of finding inspiration for his most recent novel from a “chance” encounter with a children’s choire.

Between seven books and decades in newspapers, Stephen Kiernan has had nearly five million words in print. A graduate of Middlebury College, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and the Iowa Writers Workshop, his work has won dozens of awards, has been translated into many languages, and has been optioned for TV and film production. A performing guitarist since he was ten years old, he has recorded 3 CD's of original music, and has composed for theater, dance and film scores. He lives in Vermont.