Kevin is a transplanted Midwesterner who has lived in Palo Alto, California, most of his life. He has published in fifty literary magazines and has published a book of poems and a novel. The San Francisco/Peninsula California Writer's Club recently named him Writer of the Year.He served as President, Poetry Center San Jose, for twelve years, while he earned an MFA from San Jose State University. His novel, The Sureness of Horses, is available from Manzanita Writers Press in hardback, softcover, and ebook, and as an audiobook read by Sands Hall from Cherry Hill Publications.His poems, praised for their accessibility, have been published widely. The national website YourDailyPoem.com has selected his poems eight times and has anthologized his work in their "Best of Your Daily Poem" collection Poems to Lift You Up & Make You Smile.