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Writer + Professor + Husband + Father + MFA Director + Baseball, Music, & Soccer Lover View all posts by rdean2014

January, 2026 – Writer-in-Residence (w R Dean Johnson) @ Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope, AL

– Recent Events –

January 15, 2026

Reading and Reception, 5:30pm to 7:30pm (w R Dean Johnson) @ Fairhope Public Library, Fairhope, AL

November 1, 2025
Signing, 9:00am to 3:00pm @ KENTUCKY BOOK FESTIVAL, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington, KY

November 7, 2025
Front Porch Talk w Todd King, 6:00pm @ EKU BOOK CLUB, Crabbe Library, Richmond, KY

November 15, 2025
Panel/Signing, 10:00am to 4:00pm @ BOOKS BY THE BANKS, Cincinnati, OH

November 26, 2025
Reading/Signing, 12:00pm @ OLD TOWN BOOKS, San Angelo, TX

October 25, 2025
WEST VIRGINIA BOOK FESTIVAL @ Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center, Charleston, WV

June 19, 2025
READING & SIGNING, 7:00p-9:00p @ Eagle Eye Book Shop – Decatur, GA

June 14, 2025
KENTUCKY BOOK FESTIVAL, LOUISVILLE EDITION, 10:00a – 5:00p @ 720 Brent St. – Paristown/Louisville, KY

June 5, 2025
FIVE OAKS LAUNCH PARTY (w musical guest, Domenico Scarambone), 7:30p @ Dreaming Creek Brewery – Richmond, KY [Books available through The Taleless Dog Booksellers]

May 28, 2025
FIVE OAKS BOOK RELEASE , 7:00pm @ Joseph-Beth Booksellers – Lexington, KY

April 16, 2025
AUTHOR’S SHOWCASE
1:00p-2:00p @ Eastern Kentucky University, Grand Reading Room in Crabbe Library -Richmond, KY

April 3-5, 2025
FEATURED AUTHOR @ Scissortail Creative Writing Festival – Ada, OK

March 28, 2025
PANELIST “You’re So Money & You Don’t Even Know It: Funding Your Creative Writing” AWP Conference & Bookfair , Los Angeles, CA

October 19, 2024
PRESENTER
Louisville Book Festival Louisville, KY

October 8, 2022 KENTUCKY STATE POETRY SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Bowling Green, KY

October 20, 2022 Featured Author, BEREA ARTS COUNCIL OPEN MIC, Berea, KY

September 24, 2022 Book Signing, MADISON BOOK FEST, Richmond, KY.

June 28, 2022 Reading, DISQUIET INTERNATIONAL LITERARY PROGRAM, Lisbon, Portugal

March 5, 2020 Panelist: “Small wonder: How small presses and their authors promote their work,” AWP20, San Antonio, TX.

October 4-6, 2019 Reading & Craft Lecture, KSPS ANNUAL MEETING and POETRY FESTIVAL , Carnegie Center in Lexington, KY

September 20-21, 2019 Book Signing, HEARTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL, Elizabethtown, KY

July 30, 2019 Writer-in-Residence, ARTISTS THRIVE SUMMIT, Berea, KY (through August 2).