Kevin Canty is the American author of three novels (Into the Great Wide Open, Nine Below Zero, and Winslow in Love) and two collections of short stories (A Stranger in This World and Honeymoon). He received his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1993 in Creative Writing and is a faculty member at the University of Montana at Missoula in the English department, where he currently resides. Canty is a master at illustrating the humor, absurdity, and poignancy of life, even at its most mundane moments. For alternate uses, see MFA (disambiguation). ... The University of Arizona (UA or U of A) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona. ... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from generic writing. ... University of Montana The University of Montana campus, 1999. ... Missoula, Montana viewed from the top of Mount Sentinel in 1999. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...