The Epic of Gilgamesh - Paperback

by Kent H. Dixon (Translator), Kevin H. Dixon (Illustrator), Russ Kick (Introduction by)

Author Biography

KENT H. DIXON is primarily a prose writer, but has published in all genres. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, The Georgia Review, The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, The American Prospect, Shenandoah, and many other journals. Recent translations include Mallarmé's L'après-midi d'un faune and Rilke's "Leichen-Wäsche," Sappho and Baudelaire in Transference, and hibakusha (A-bomb survivor poetry) in Luna: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. With his artist son Kevin, he created the opening graphic novel excerpt of The Epic of Gilgamesh in editor Russ Kick's 2012 three-volume anthology The Graphic Canon. Kent was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. from University of Iowa--the Writers' Workshop. Until retiring in 2013, he taught creative writing and literature at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where he lives with his writer wife and continues to teach whitewater kayaking.

KEVIN H. DIXON is known for the autobiographical series ...And Then There Was Rock, "...true stories about playing in a crappy loser band." With collaborator Eric Knisley, he produced Mickey Death and the Winds of Impotence, for which they won a Xeric Award. Kevin has done cover art for small presses in Chapel Hill NC; run comic series in local newspapers; hosted 'underground' talk radio shows; and contributed the cover to the first volume of The Graphic Canon, an Oliver Twist for the second volume, and a Brothers Grimm tale for The Graphic Canon of Children's Literature. Kevin lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and their three cats.