Keith Austin

After attending Parmiter's Grammar School in East London, Keith worked in a local pie, mash and eel shop for two years before joining the East London Advertiser newspaper at the age of 20. After working in East London, Oxford, and Essex, he eventually made it to Fleet Street when he joined The Sunday Times in London.

After stints at the Daily Mirror and the China Daily newspaper in Beijing, he emigrated to Australia in 1994 and stayed for 28 years, working on the Sydney Morning Herald and then becoming a freelance travel writer. It was while in Australia that the inspiration struck him to write the YA horror story GRYMM.

Keith returned to the UK in 2022 and then relocated to Albania for a few months to write FART CLOWNS, his 4th - and most outrageous - YA book (coming soon!).