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Kevin Lōttes is a former cemetery maintenance man, grocery store stock boy, furniture factory floater, aircraft refueler, Barnes & Noble bookseller, stage and film actor, cameraman, Hampton Inn front desk clerk, telemarketer, gas station clerk, movie theater doorman, construction worker, janitor and administrative assistant. The inevitable happened. After filling out numerous job applications, he became a writer.  Kevin’s “career of jobs” is wildly logged in his debut story collection, First Person Last. His short story “Glued Sawdust” won the 2008 Bob Dylan Days First Place Prize for Fiction and appeared in the literary journal Talkin’ Blues. His selected prose appears in the gorgeous new anthology of prose and poetry for the modern patriot in The Good Things About America, edited by Kevin Staniec and Derrick Brown (Write Bloody). He is an award-winning playwright of several plays, including The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow, The Line Shack, San Francisco Scarecrows, and Two Mrs. & Ablaze. His first one-act play, Passing Red Dodges, was awarded a finalist at the American College Theatre Festival in 2000. His radio plays, Voicebox, Missing You, and The Callback aired on FM radio. Monologues from his numerous plays appear in Classroom Scenes and Monologues (Dramatic Publishing) and in the Audition Arsenal Anthology Series (Smith & Krauss, Inc.)  He lives in the Great Midwest.