Kevin Rabalais has taught writing and literature at universities and in university programs in Australia, France and the United States. As a freelance writer for newspapers, magazines and literary journals--among them The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly (Australia), the New Zealand Listener, Brick (Canada), Tin House and The Kenyon Review (U.S.)--he has written extensively about contemporary world literature, with a focus on American fiction. A voting member of the National Book Critics Circle, his books include The Landscape of Desire, for which he received a Sydney Morning Herald Award for Best Young Writer; Novel Voices: Conversations with 17 Award-Winning American Writers, winner of an Eaton Literary Award; Conversations with James Salter; and Sacred Trespasses, essays by Loyola New Orleans faculty members about the books that have influenced them. He has held photography exhibitions in the United States and Australia and is at work on several writing projects and a photography book about Louisiana.