Passionate Engagement

Author Ken Harvey was born in Lynn, MA, otherwise known as the city of sin, where he lived until attending Bowdoin College in Maine. After college he spent a year in Spain on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study changes in the Spanish theater after Franco's death.

Ken was a teacher and administrator for over 25 years. He has received a number of grants, including one to study the life and work of Sylvia Ashton Warner and another to travel to Spain from the Ortega y Gasset Foundation. He holds an MA in Spanish Language and Literature from Middlebury College.

His book of short stories, "If You Were with Me, Everything Would Be All Right " won the Violet Quill Award for Best Gay Fiction of the Year and was named one of the "twenty books of note" by the "Lambda Literary Review." His stories have been published in over 20 literary magazines and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has read his work on "On Point," a program on National Public Radio.

He now lives near Boston with his husband, Bruce Myers, Willa and Shakespeare (two basset hounds) and two stepdaughters. His memoir, A Passionate Engagement, takes a very personal view of the same-sex marriage movement in the United States. It will be available in October, 2010. Having purchased a home in Toronto shortly after George Bush's invasion of Iraq, Ken and Bruce spend a great deal of time in Canada.