David Keck

David Keck is a New York based writer and teacher who grew up in Winnipeg, Canada.

David loves nothing better than exploring castles, cathedrals, tombs, and henges. There is something about really being in these places–getting chased by the farmer’s dog–that brings the past to life.

David loves to dig up stories that show traces of earlier ways of thinking. He’s endlessly curious about how people actually lived in other times and places, and he wants his readers to join him in an older, stranger world.

David holds degrees in English Literature/History and Education from the University of Manitoba and an MA in creative writing from the University of Sussex in the UK.

In 2004, he moved to New York to marry editor and author Anne Groell. They met in Montreal at the World Fantasy Convention in 2001. They now have an intrepid young daughter together.

For thirteen years, he taught English at a public middle school in Washington Heights. From the streets around the school, you can often see the tower of The Met Cloisters museum, with its medieval treasures, peeking out above the trees. The past is never far away. He tries to bring his drawings and his imagination to every class, and has become a great proponent of educational technology.

David recently fulfilled his childhood ambition of getting his cartoons into print, placing work with The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Analog Magazine, and Random House’s Suvudu website, before it became Unbound Worlds.

He currently enjoys populating snapshots of New York’s subways, streets, and secret forests with pop-eyed monsters (some of which you might see here: https://linkkle.com/DavidKeck ). But, in his fiction, a reader will find the darker side of his imagination.