KEITH MCLEAN

Keith McLean, b.1961.

My first memory is of speaking to an escaped convict in leg-irons in the African bush in 1962. The reliability of this memory is challenged by the fact that the country in which this incident took place no longer exists. Northern Rhodesia is now Zambia.

I have lived abroad for most of my life: in the Far East, Nepal, Africa, the Antipodes and The Americas; until recently I lived in Quito.

I have had stories published in The Dalhousie Review in Nova Scotia.

The playwright, Trevor Griffith, directed a production of my play Marvellous Animals in London at The Tristan Bates Theatre in December 2007.

My favorite dead person is Elvis; I love The Flamin’ Groovies, eat cooked food and used to support Queens Park Rangers when Stan Bowles bestrode Loftus Road like a colossus.

I am married to a Quitena who is gone but not absent and live with my daughter in the Fens.