Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Kevin Brown

Compulsion

And the Train Kept Moving is a story of trauma and obsession

Michael Kiggins’ debut novel, And the Train Kept Moving, follows Bryan Meigs, a young gay man with OCD living in Memphis during the early 2000s, trying to make sense of his life and the trauma he has suffered. Kiggins will discuss the book at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 12 and Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on September 22.

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“The First Sunday of Advent”

December 21, 2012 Kevin Brown is a professor at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. He is the author of one book of poetry, Exit Lines (Plain View Press, 2009), and two chapbooks: Abecedarium (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and Holy Days: Poems (winner of the 2011 Split Oak Press Chapbook Contest). He has also written a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again (Wipf and Stock, 2012), and a book of scholarship, They Love to Tell the Story: Five Contemporary Novelists Take on the Gospels (Kennesaw State University Press, 2012). He received his M.F.A from Murray State University.

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