About the author

Kevin St. Jarre

<strong></strong><strong>Kevin St. Jarre</strong> is the author of&nbsp;<em>Chills at Her Living Cry</em>&nbsp;(October 2024),&nbsp;<em>Paris, California</em>&nbsp;(May 2023),&nbsp;<em>Absence of Grace</em>&nbsp;(April 2022),&nbsp;<em>The Twin</em>&nbsp;(Oct. 2021),&nbsp;<em>Celestine</em>&nbsp;(May 2021), and&nbsp;<em>Aliens, Drywall, and a Unicycle</em>&nbsp;(Nov. 2021), all from Encircle Publications. His new novel,&nbsp;<em>The Ghosts of Riddell House</em>, will be published in September 2026. He’s a published poet, an essayist, and his Pushcart-nominated short fiction has appeared in journals such as&nbsp;<em>Story</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Solstice Literary Magazine</em>. Kevin has been invited to present at numerous conferences.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has worked as a teacher, a newspaper reporter, and an international corporate consultant, and he earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program. Twice awarded scholarships, he studied at the Norman Mailer Writers Center on Cape Cod, MA, with Sigrid Nunez and David Black. He is a member of NHWP, MWPA, and International Thriller Writers. Follow Kevin on Twitter @kstjarre. He now lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, but grew up in the state’s northernmost town of Madawaska.<br><br>