Keith McLeod was born in 1949 in Margaret River where his parents ran a dairy farm. He travelled and worked in northern Western Australia and taught in the Kimberley region before settling again in Margaret River. As well as the works listed, a documentary prose piece by the author, about the impending demise of a local drive-in theatre, titled 'The Margaret River Drive-In' was published on the Margaret River Online News web site (2005).