Keith Bran is an author and essayist, with a deep and abiding love for magical realism. For over 350 years, his ancestors have meandered west across the North American continent, first landing in the Colony of Virginia in the 1650s, migrating to the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, moseying through a ranch in New Mexico, and settling in the orange groves of Southern California in the 1950s.

Keith grew up in rural towns across Montana and Northern California, where the fantastical folk tales of the west - of Paul Bunyan and Babe, Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, and Pecos Bill - are ingrained in the mythologies of people and place. 

Keith lives in the middle of the woods in the Presidio of San Francisco with his wife and kids, Zola the vizsla, and Wolfie the doggish-cat. His great-grandparents are buried nearby in the National Cemetery, usually shrouded in wispy fog, where he waves to them each morning on a daily dog walk, accompanied by his spirit animal Kenzie.