Dean grew up in a military family, traveling the U.S. and Europe in his youth. He’s now retired from a twenty-five year law enforcement career and currently lives in central Virginia with his wife and the couple’s problem child, their Australian Cattle Dog.
Dean earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the Solstice Low Residency Program (now at Lasell University) and was awarded the Dennis Lehane Fellowship for Fiction in 2020.TRIALS of the HORSEMAN is his debut novel. The second book of the series is in the works.