About Me

Kevin Myrick, Winter 2010

Life is all about stories and characters. The story of Kevin Paul Myrick began on March 14, 1985 in a hospital in Chattanooga, Tenn. I lived in the Chattanooga area until the mid-1990s, when my family picked up and moved to Beaufort, a town on the southern coast of South Carolina. You might know it as the locale where famous movies were made, including The Big Chill, Forrest Gump, G.I. Jane and others. It is also close to Parris Island, where the United States Marine Corps has a training center, and Hilton Head Island, where the rich and famous like to go and vacation from time to time.

When I turned 16, I moved to Huntsville, Ala., where I lived for two years with my aunt and uncle and my cousin Jessie until I was accepted at Auburn University, where I pursued a number of degree ideas until I finally settled on a Bachelors of Arts in English. I graduated with that degree in May 2007, concentrating on both Creative Writing and Journalism.

During my time at Auburn, I had a radio show called “The Reverend Kevin’s Musical Revival” where I played a mixture of alternative and classic rock, and then ended up working for The Auburn Plainsman where I was a staff writer, and later during my senior year the Online Editor. In May 2007 after graduating from Auburn University, I began my career at Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive working for a site calledLoudounextra.com (now defunct) overseen by a guy many in the journalism world know as The Rob Curley.

Since leaving Washington, D.C. in 2008, I’ve been working as a reporter for the Rome News-Tribune in Rome, Ga. and return to my native home in Chattanooga and Ringgold on a regular basis.

Besides being a general assignment reporter, my fiction and non-fiction work has been featured on this Web site, in The Auburn Circle and on Fictionaut, where in April I was moderator for the April Fool’s Day Challenge.