Kenneth King is the author of Writing in Motion: Body-Language-Technology published by Wesleyan University Press (2003), most of which can be accessed at Google Books http://books.google.com. His writings have appeared in The Paris Review, The Chicago Review, Hotel Amerika, /nor (New Ohio Review), Art & Cinema, Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, Shantih: The Literature of Soho, Movement Research Performance Journal, PLJ/Performing Arts Journal, Semiotext(e), Film Culture, Soho Weekly News, Gay and Lesbian Journal Worldwide, Dance Magazine, File, eddy, Ballet Review, Panache, and in the anthologies Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page, Merce Cunningham: Dancing in Space and Time, The Young American Writers, The New American Arts, Text-Sound Texts, Further Steps: Fifteen Choreographers on Modern Dance, Further Steps 2: Fourteen Choreographers on What's the R.A.G.E. in Modern Dance, and The New American Cinema.

King also has a history as a multimedia dance artist who has performed throughout the US and in Europe. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and was awarded a "Bessie" New York Performance Award for/Sustained Achievement, which he declined to protest the Iraq War. He has taught in numerous universities and colleges and has appeared in the films of Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Gregory Markopoulos, Michael Blackwood, and in Robyn Brentano and Andrew Horn's movie Space City. He is a graduate of Antioch College and lives in New York City.