Occupation Novelist Role Writer Name Ken Kuhlken | Genre Fiction Nationality American | |
Notable works MidheavenThe Loud AdiosThe Do-Re-Mi Notable awards Ernest Hemingway Award, Shamus Award, St Martin's Best First PI Novel, San Diego Book Award Children Darcy (Kuhlken) Mentone, Cody Kuhlken, Zoe Kuhlken Awards St. Martins’ Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest Nominations Shamus Award for Best P. I. Hardcover Novel Books The loud adios, The Good Know Nothing, Writing and the Spirit, The Biggest Liar in Lo, Vagabond Virgins | ||
Mystery Author Ken Kuhlken At Left Coast Crime
Ken Kuhlken was born and grew up in San Diego, played semi-pro baseball in Tijuana, and attended San Diego State University, first as a philosophy and then as an English major. After college, he wrote, played guitar and sang in a rock and blues band, and taught high school, before relocating to attend the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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His stories have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
During the 1980s, his fascination with novels of crime, punishment, and redemption, led him to conceive of the Hickey family series, which he continues to write. He has also been a frequent contributor of fiction and feature articles and a columnist for the San Diego Reader.
He has taught Creative Writing at the University of Arizona; California State University, Chico; and San Diego State University. With his wife Pam, he founded Perelandra College, which he serves as president and chair of Creative Writing.