American writer who covered the franchise for Star Trek Communicator magazine before co-writing a long run of licensed novels and novellas with Dayton Ward, including much of the Vanguard series.
Kevin Dilmore first wrote about Star Trek as a journalist, contributing features and interviews to the official fan club magazine Star Trek Communicator.
His fiction has almost all been written in partnership with Dayton Ward. Together they produced a string of Starfleet Corps of Engineers novellas, the Next Generation novels A Time to Sow and A Time to Harvest, and the Vanguard books Summon the Thunder, Open Secrets and What Judgments Come, set aboard Starbase 47 in the Original Series era.
The pair also wrote Purgatory's Key, the concluding volume of the Legacies trilogy published for the franchise's fiftieth anniversary in 2016.