Kevin Wayne Jeter (born March 26, 1950)[1] is an American science fiction and horror author known for his literary writing style, dark themes, and paranoid, unsympathetic characters.

Jeter attended college at California State University, Fullerton where he became friends with James P. Blaylock and Tim Powers, and through them, Philip K.

Due to its violent and sexually provocative content, it took Jeter around ten years to find a publisher for it.

Jeter would also coin the term steampunk, in reference to cyberpunk[6] in a letter to Locus in April 1987, in order to describe the steam-technology, alternate-history works that he published along with his friends, Blaylock and Powers.

Jeter's steampunk novels are Morlock Night, Infernal Devices, and its sequels Fiendish Schemes (2013) and Grim Expectations (2017).