About
Author of novels, short stories, plays, poems, and songs, John Kearns grew up in Philadelphia where he studied
at St. Joseph’s Preparatory
School and St. Joseph’s University,
earning a BA in English with a Minor in Philosophy in 1986. In 1994, he
earned an MA in English, Irish Literature Concentration, from The Catholic
University of America in Washington, DC. He lives in New York, where he works as a writer.
In November
2003, his one-act play, World Piece, was performed at the Bowery Poetry Club in
Manhattan. His full length play, Designers
with Dirty Faces, had a successful run in July and August 2003 at The
Little Theatre in Woodside, Queens, having had a staged reading at Manhattan’s Rocky Sullivan’s in January
2000. His novel in progress, Worlds, was named a finalist in the
2002 New Century Writers’ Awards. His one-act play, The Importance of
Loving Shakespeare, was produced at the Eugene Frankel Theatre in New York in 1999. He was chosen to
read his short story, “Flight,” at the Lower East Side’s The Living Room in the fall of
2001.
He has worked as a teacher in the South Bronx and in Northeast
Philadelphia, an advertising proofreader on
Madison Avenue, a freelance writer/editor/proofreader in Washington, DC, and as a
Technical Writer in Burlington, VT, Manhattan, Jersey City, and the Bronx.
