Byron Keats (b. 1982, Brighton, UK) is a British American writer and former atmospheric science technician. After emigrating to the United States in 2004, he logged storms for a NOAA subcontractor in Oklahoma City before earning an MA in folklore at the University of New Mexico. His short fiction has appeared in small magazines and audio anthologies, and his essays on weather lore and roadside astronomy have run in regional journals. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he volunteers with a dark sky advocacy group and collects obsolete cameras. When not writing, he restores defunct observatory signage and hikes mesa trails with his partner and a one eyed cattle dog named Pilot.
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