Kevin Coyne

Kevin has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Asbury Park Press and The New York Times, for which he wrote a weekly column about New Jersey. He has been teaching at Columbia Journalism School since 2000 and has twice been chosen as Distinguished Teacher of the Year. He is the author of A Day in the Night of America; Domers: A Year at Notre Dame; and the recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for Marching Home: To War and Back with The Men of One American Town. He writes on Substack at Your Hometown Too: Stories About America from Bruce Springsteen’s Hometown, and Mine, and is the founding curator of the forthcoming My Hometown: The Bruce Springsteen American Story Center in his own hometown of Freehold, New Jersey. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.