Kevin Dean is a writer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Previously, he lived in Cairo, Egypt, where he worked as an editor and studied Arabic.

His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Common and The Rumpus. He co-authored a theatrical adaptation of the novel Taxi, by Khaled Al-Khamissi, which was performed live in Cairo in 2013 and published in Tahrir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution. He is at work on his first novel.

He likes stories with a strong sense of place and characters who help him better understand life. When not writing or reading, he enjoys swimming in pools and open water.