Memoir of a Hyena
by Sean Kennerly
Sean Kennerly
Sean Kennerly is a writer and musician living in Brooklyn. Memoir of a Hyena is his debut novel. He was born in Florida in 1967 and grew up shuttling between Houston, Texas and Boulder, Colorado. In 1985 he began college at UC Berkeley and in 1991 graduated with a BA in English. He then moved across the bay to San Francisco where he worked for several years at the SF Bay Guardian and also contributed to several other periodicals. Kennerly moved to New York city in 1997 and began working at Rolling Stone as a fact checker. He quit after a year and became a full-time musician for a few years before taking a job with his brother doing carpentry. He continued to work as a carpenter/contractor and a musician until the present.