Keith Spratley spent his first 24 years in London, UK. He obtained a BSc and PhD in chemistry and then moved down to Somerset UK to take up employment with the UK Ministry of Defence in an explosives factory. He was privatised out of MoD into British Aerospace and then BAE Systems, eventually retiring from an explosives filling factory in South Wales and relocating to the US. He has been a published author of fiction since 2001 and turned his attention to non-fiction late in 2017, co-authoring 'Flashlight, Recorder and Comfortable Shoes' with Ted Van Son Jr, a beginner's manual for paranormal investigation. He is married to Morgan and lives in New York State, where he conducts paranormal investigations, keeps his eyes open for UFOs, writes and records music, indulges in various writing projects and is kept amused by two cats.