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Kevin Maloney

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in Portland, Oregon, The United States

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Flannery O'Connor, Denis Johnson, Joseph Heller, Philip K. Dick ...more

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Kevin Maloney is the author of The Red-Headed Pilgrim (Two Dollar Radio, Jan 2023), Horse Girl Fever (CLASH Books, 2025), and Cult of Loretta (Lazy Fascist, 2015).

At times a TJ Maxx associate, grocery clerk, outdoor school instructor, organic farmer, electrician, high school English teacher, and teddy bear salesman, Kevin currently works as a web developer and writer. His stories have appeared in Hobart, Barrelhouse, Green Mountains Review, and a number of other journals and anthologies.

He lives in Portland, Oregon, five blocks from his very hot and talented fiancée Ryan-Ashley Anderson.

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	The Red-Headed Pilgrim 3.82 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2023 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Volume 0: Issue Two by Marian Crotty, Lisa Unger (Goodreads Author), Quan Barry 3.39 avg rating — 440 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cult of Loretta 4.21 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horse Girl Fever: Stories 3.59 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“As she lay next to me on the scratchy gray fiber of the dirty carpet, smoking a cigarette, I started to understand why people cheat on each other. I didn’t forgive Loretta for what she’d done, but I respected it.”
― Kevin Maloney, Cult of Loretta

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