Kevin Dean (he/him) is a writer of poetry and fiction based in Seattle, Washington. 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 writing has been published in The Common and The Rumpus. He’s a fellow with the 2026 Jack Straw Writers Program, curated by Claudia Castro Luna, and an alum of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. He’s at work on a debut collection of poems.

His writing explores the link between the personal and the political, as well as how places shape our identities and memories. For more info on this, check out a podcast chat he had with Emily Everett, managing editor of The Common.

When not writing or reading, he enjoys taking walks with his wife, Randa, and swimming in both open water and local pools.