Kevin A. González

Biography

Kevin A. González was raised in Puerto Rico, received his MFA in poetry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and is now a fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Hotel Amerika, and Poetry. His story, “Statehood,” won the Playboy College Fiction Contest.

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FICTION / Spring 2006

Wake

By Kevin A. González

It’s New Year’s Day and I’m on my godfather’s Dusky doing 5000 rpm on the North Sound of Virgin Gorda with a mechanic named Michael Jackson at the helm. He’s shoved the twin Evinrude controls all the way down on the console, and I keep...