Born in San Francisco in 1945, Greg Keith spent his childhood in rural Oklahoma and Oregon on dairy farms where his father worked.

At different times he has been a truck driver, a carpenter, a gardener, at intervals feeding himself as a musician, singing and playing guitar in bars and coffeehouses through the '60s and '70s. He lives in Santa Cruz, California and has worked as a computer programmer in Silicon Valley for the last eighteen years.

He is currently involved in a struggle with cancer which has so far cost him his right cheekbone and the orbit of his eye. This is his first full-length book.

Photo by Paul Schraub