Kevin Dean is a writer based in Seattle, Washington. Previously, he lived in Cairo, Egypt, where he worked as an editor and studied Arabic.

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. He’s at work on a collection of poems.

For more info on his writing process, 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.