Kevin Waltman is an instructor at The University of Alabama. He lives in Coker with his wife Jessica and their dog Henry.

His first young adult novel, Nowhere Fast, was published by Scholastic in 2002, and his second, Learning the Game, was published by Scholastic in 2005. He has published short fiction with The Emerson Review, CT Review, Hunger Mountain, esquire.com, Six Bricks Press, PUSH: An Anthology, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.