Kevin Lane DearingerKevin Lane Dearinger is a retired actor-singer and former English teacher. His publications include The Bard in the Bluegrass; Marie Prescott; Clyde Fitch and the American Theatre; Eleanor Robson Belmont, a Theatrical Life; five other poetry collectins: Moth and Wasp, Caught in the Devotion of Time, Rose Cloud and Demon Thunder, This Mortal Coil, and Cold As a Silver Spoon; and two memoirs: Bad Sex in Kentucky and On Stage with Bette Davis: Inside the Fabulous Flop of Miss Moffat. His published plays, available for new productions, include Regarding Mrs. Carter, Naked on Request, Four Squares on a Kentucky Quilt, Three Short Plays, and Expiation. For WUKY Radio and the AthensWest Theatre Company, he contributed scenes to Limestone 1833 and abridged Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. He has contributed several introductory essays to the work of others and chronicled the artistic life of The Lexington Theatre Company. His poems have also appeared in a variety of journals and magazines. His writing attempts to keep time with his Kentucky heritage, his love of family, his LGBTQ identity, his recognition of time lost, and his own erratic pulse. Read More Read Less