Kevin D. Prufer (born 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, novelist, academic, editor, and essayist.
He is currently Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and Editor-at-Large of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing,[1] Associate Editor of American Book Review,[2] Co-Curator of the Unsung Masters Series, and the former Vice President/Secretary of the National Book Critics Circle.
[3] Prufer currently resides in Houston, Texas, with artist and critic Mary Hallab.
His honors include five Pushcart Prizes, and awards from the Poetry Society of America, the Academy of American Poets, The Lannan Foundation and other organizations.
[5] He has also been awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry.