Keith Keller was born in Vancouver and grew up in the Fraser Valley. He has been a reporter and a teacher, and spent four summers commercial cod fishing from a one-family island off the Labrador coast. He is the author of Wildfire Wars: Frontline Stories of BC's Worst Forest Fires [2002] and the BC bestseller Dangerous Waters: Wrecks and Rescues Off the BC Coast [1997], which was shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award for best BC book of the year. He lives on Denman Island with his wife and two daughters.

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Wildfire Wars: Frontline Stories of BC's Worst Forest Fires