Kevin Oderman's early literary essays led to writing How Things Fit Together (New England UP,) winner of a Bakeless Prize in nonfiction. From his travel experiences he wrote his first novel, Going (Vandalia Press) and his literary nonfiction about travel is currently being gathered into a volume, "Cannot Stay." Twice he has lived abroad as a Fulbright Fellow and has taught Modern American Poetry, as a Senior Lecturer at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and at Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan. He is a professor of English at West Virginia University. White Vespa is his second novel.