Richard Kenney is the author of The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (Yale, 1984), Orrery (Atheneum, 1985), The Invention of the Zero (Knopf, 1993), and...Richard Kenney is the author of The Evolution of the Flightless Bird (Yale, 1984), Orrery (Atheneum, 1985), The Invention of the Zero (Knopf, 1993), and The One-Strand River (Knopf, 2008). His work has attracted honors over the years, among them the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the Rome Prize in Literature, and fellowships from the Guggenheim, MacArthur and Lannan Foundations. He teaches at the University of Washington, in Seattle. MoreClose