Ken­ny Fries’s new book is In the Province of the Gods, which received the Cre­ative Cap­i­tal lit­er­a­ture grant. His oth­er books include The His­to­ry of My Shoes and the Evo­lu­tion of Darwin’s The­o­ry and Body, Remem­ber: A Mem­oir. He edit­ed Star­ing Back: The Dis­abil­i­ty Expe­ri­ence from the Inside Out. He was a Cre­ative Arts Fel­low of the Japan‑U.S. Friend­ship Com­mis­sion and the Nation­al Endow­ment for the Arts, and twice a Ful­bright Schol­ar (Japan and Ger­many). He teach­es in the MFA in Cre­ative Writ­ing Pro­gram at God­dard College.