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 Jack Straw Writers at It's About Time Reading Series
with Kevin Dean, Elissa Favero, Jean Ferruzola, Diane Nguyen, Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, and Ruth Marie Tomlinson
Thursday, October 8, 6:00pm
Free. 6pm.
Seattle Public Library, Ballard Branch
¡Viven! Jack Straw Writers at Hugo House
A Día de Muertos reading with Claudia Castro Luna, Natalie Pascale Boisseau, Kevin Dean, Elissa Favero, Jean Ferruzola, Maiah A Merino, Alejandro Pérez-Cortés, and Sayantani Roy.
Thursday, October 29, 7:00pm
Starts at 7pm. Free.
Hugo House
An anthology and reading from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Raven Chronicles celebrating the first twenty years of the Jack Straw Writers Program, 1997-2016
