Kevin Lōttes ("lotus") is a former cemetery maintenance man, grocery store stock boy, factory floater, aircraft refueler, bookseller, stage and film actor, cameraman, hotel front desk clerk, telemarketer, gas station clerk, movie theater doorman, construction worker, handyman, and janitor. His 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 has appeared in The Good Things About America (Write Bloody Publishing) anthology and Filigree. He is the playwright of several produced plays, including The Leash of the Rainbow's Meow, The Line Shack, Paralyzed July, Cracking Nuckols, 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. The Manhattan Theatre Source named Cracking Nuckols as a finalist for the 2010 Estrogenius Festival. 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 several editions of the Audition Arsenal Anthology Series (Smith & Krauss, Inc.). The 2011 release of Washrag & other stories is his audiobook debut, featuring original music by Musico Zurdo (Melodic Lingo). Kevin lives in Columbus, Ohio.