Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and raised in Madawaska, Maine, Kevin entered the US Army at age 17.

He attended the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, California.  There he studied Czech for a year, before moving on first to San Angelo, Texas and next to what was then West Germany.

He and his young family at first lived in Aurach, a small village not far from where he was stationed at Katterbach as a member of A Company, 501st Military Intelligence Battalion, 1st Armored Division.  While living in Europe, he was able to witness the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.  He was able to spend considerable time in Prague before it was changed by the flood of westerners that soon followed.

He led a combat intel team in Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq.  Upon his return to the United States, he became an instructor and course developer at the US Army Intelligence School at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts.

He soon left the military and attended university, working for a summer in the local paper mill to help pay for his studies.  Kevin was elected to municipal office while in college, and worked in the neighboring small town as the town manager.  Later, he worked for a year as a photographer and reporter at a small weekly newspaper. 

After graduating from university, he began teaching English and social studies at a nearby high school, but left in the second year to work in the corporate world.  His consulting work took him around the world with clients as varied as Sprint, General Motors, DoD, Boeing, Telus, Los Alamos Labs, GiTy, Deutche Telekom, and the Chinese space agency among hundreds of others.

After writing three novels for Berkley Books, Kevin returned to teaching. 

He is currently working on several projects and is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction with the University of Southern Maine.  He lives with his wife and two youngest children, while his oldest son Derek is pursuing a BFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design.