Kevin Dean (he/him) is a Seattle-based writer of poetry and fiction. Previously, he lived in Cairo, Egypt, where he worked as an editor and studied Arabic. Before all that, he was a kid with a library card in southwest Virginia.

His work has been published in The Common and The Rumpus. In addition to the Jack Straw Writers Program, he’s an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. He’s currently at work on a debut collection of poetry.

2026 Writers Program