Kevin M. Cowan’s published works are windows into worlds both familiar and strange — places where metaphysics and raw humanity collide, where humor and heartbreak share the same page.

Rooted in a fierce love of storytelling, Kevin’s fiction explores the thresholds between reality and imagination, sanity and surrender, hope and despair. His work is unapologetically alive — blending classic narrative craft with experimental risks, philosophical inquiry, and a touch of the surreal.

Kevin's writing career officially took flight at the Daily Nebraskan, where he began as a feature writer and reviewer. After publishing his debut novel, Coffee with Kuwait, Kevin returned to the Daily Nebraskan to launch Alpine Dolphins, a groundbreaking fiction column — the first of its kind at the paper.

Kevin’s fiction deepened during his time as Fiction Editor for The Great Red Shark (now The Reader), where he crafted stories like:

• Matchbook Spies — A fragmented, stylish meditation on surveillance, paranoia, and the quiet revolutions waged in anonymous diners and smoke-stained alleys as told by the legendary outlaw Jesse Devine.
• Nick with Nixon at Night — Two military-types get jazzed by Nixon calling everyone in the third world "losers" and embark on a illfated mission to prove that they are in fact the losers.
• The Death of Leroy Post — A haunting, elegiac tale of a forgotten man’s passing — capturing the dignity, loneliness, and strange beauty of an unnoticed life. A Critical Theory professor has a psychotic break over the lack of intelligence of his students, and starts a slow, painful downward spiral that begins at the end.

These stories, among others, would eventually be collected into Living in the Demon Box — a contemporary short story anthology weaving metaphysics, sexuality, entropy, and holistic understanding into one powerful whole.

Kevin’s major published works include:

• Coffee with Kuwait — A prophetic fool becomes the spiritual guide of a band of misfits on the Northern California coast. A whimsical and profound meditation on art, spirit, and the improbable triumph of optimism.
• Living in the Demon Box — A collection of contemporary short stories that journey through metaphysics, sanity, and the sublime entropy of life itself — crafted with precision, humor, and heart.
• In Duct Tape Transit — A metaphysical vision quest through the rave parties, grunge enclaves, and ancient streets of the world — a raw, erotic, and existential odyssey steeped in the chaos and beauty of being.
• Dropping Lucky Pennies — A powerful meditation on the immortality of the human spirit, told through the awakening of “Great Spirits” across history. A visionary work blending New Age thought, relativity theory, and existential hope.

Through all of his works, Kevin remains true to the same mission:
To explore the hidden dimensions of reality — and to tell stories that matter.