About KD

Kurtis Davidson

"Individually," says Kurtis Davidson, "we each have 3/4 of the talent that a great writer needs. Put us together, and, well, you do the math."

Kurtis Davidson first appeared in print in the Summer 2003 issue of The Portland Review with the literary satire "Great Forgotten American Poets of the 20th Century." Since then, the two-headed Davidson's shorter work has appeared in The North American Review, Ink Pot, The Southeast Review, The Yalobusha Review, and The Backwards City Review.

Davidson's debut novel, What the Shadow Told Me, won the 2003 Gold Medal for Best Novel from the Pirate's Alley William Faulkner Society. It was published in April 2005 by Eastern Washington University Press.

Kurt Ayau

Kurt Ayau is America's only published novelist of Cape Verdean descent.

His most recent solo publication is the story "Official Friend," which appears in the May 2005 issue of The William and Mary Review.

Though he has never fired a gun in anger except at groundhogs, Ayau teaches in the Department of English and Fine Arts of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.

David Rachels

David Rachels is the only Alabamian to have co-written a novel with an American of Cape Verdean descent.

His most recent solo effort is the short-short story "Express Lane," which appears in the Summer 2005 issue of The American Drivel Review.

Though he has never won a fist fight against anyone other than his younger brother, Rachels also teaches in the Department of English and Fine Arts of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia.

photographs © 2005 Angie Rachels