Gerard McKeever is a writer and academic based in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Recent short stories by Gerard appear in, 'Glasgow Review of Books', 'The Flexible Persona', 'Litro', 'The Island Review', 'Bunbury', 'Storgy', 'From Glasgow to Saturn' and the Broken20 'Li' series. He holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Glasgow.