Keith David Cooley is a writer of fiction and memoir. He grew up in England and has a degree from the University of Nottingham. In 1977 he traveled extensively in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan as well India and Pakistan. This was the period before the Islamic revolution in Iran and before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He has written two novels: Initiation into the Secrets and Scutchamer Knob: A Sixties Mystery; and a novella Comatose: The stuff of nightmares.
Keith is a member of the San Francisco LaborFest Writing Group, and has performed as a storyteller around the Bay Area. He lives in San Francisco in an old Spanish Revival style apartment building within earshot of the foghorns of Golden Gate Bridge but he also has a home in England.