Brian Kiteley is the author of three novels, The River Gods, I Know Many Songs, But I Cannot Sing, and Still Life with Insects. He’s also published two books of fiction exercises, The 3 AM Epiphany and The 4 AM Breakthrough. He is at work on two linked novels, Emily’s Book and Jack’s Book, set in Greece and Egypt in the late 1980s, about love, sun, sex, and the CIA, with cameos by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and a low-level al-Qaeda operative. Kiteley has received Whiting, Guggenheim, and NEA writing fellowships as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay, Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He taught at the University of Denver in their English and Literary Arts Department from 1994 to 2022. He also taught at Ohio University, the American University in Cairo, and The City College of New York.
An essay, by Steve Himmer, on Brian's work—in Necessary Fiction.
Goodreads reviews of Brian Kiteley’s work.