Keith McWalter

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Keith McWalter is the author of When We Were All Still Alive, a literary family saga reviewed by Kirkus as “precise and fluid, weaving characters, settings, and timelines together in a complex tapestry.” His latest, speculative novel, Lifers, was described by Harvard’s Avi Loeb as “a fascinating read” and by author Chip Walter as “a stunner.”  
Keith’s essays and opinion pieces have appeared in The NewYork Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He’s theauthor of the essay blog Mortal Coil and the travel blog Spoiled Guest.A collection of his essays, No One Else Will Tell You: Letters from a Bi-Coastal Father, wonthe Writer's Digest Award forNonfiction, and his familymemoir, Befriending Ending,was anthologized in theliterary magazine Feathered Flounder.
Keith grew up in Mexico and Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Denison University and Columbia Law School, and spent his nonwriting career as a lawyer in New York and San Francisco. He and his wife Courtney live in Granville, Ohio, and Sanibel, Florida.