Kevin Moffett

Biography

Kevin Moffett is the author of two story collections and a collaborative novel, The Silent History (FSG Originals, 2014). He is a frequent contributor to McSweeney’s, and his work has been awarded the National Magazine Award for Fiction, the Nelson Algren Short Story Award, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. More recently, he cowrote a pair of scripted podcasts for Gimlet Media, Sandra and The Final Chapters of Richard Brown Winters. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Virginia.

Kevin Moffett byJoanna Morrissey

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FICTION / Spring 2024

Only Son

By Kevin Moffett ,  Illustrations by Klaus Kremmerz

As a child I often woke up next to her in her bed, somehow teleported there during the night. I’d lie very still and watch car-light shadows rove from wall to ceiling to wall. She snored with grinding constancy, as if some terrible snarl...

Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz