OK, I’ve written this blog for a year without answering the question “Who is Keir Graff?” Time to take a crack at it.

I’m the senior editor of Booklist Online. In addition to spending remarkable amounts of time developing and testing BOL (as we like to call it in order to save saying one syllable) and the publishing system that powers it, I also choose the content for BOL’s five landing pages (including the Review of the Day); assign and edit Web-only content; and help format Booklist content for republication online (that means making links, lots and lots of links). Although BOL provides lots of new ways to get at Booklist reviews and features, it’s only as good as the stuff in the magazine, so I make sure to work closely with the brilliant, experienced editors of Booklist. (I had to write that — they might be reading.)

I also write reviews (like this one). And I write this blog.

In my own time, I write a variety of stuff. In January 2007, Five Star Mystery published my first novel, Cold Lessons, under the pseudonym Michael McCulloch. In October 2007, Severn House published my second novel, My Fellow Americans, under my real name–I was going to use another pseudonym but they talked me out of it. I’m presently hard at work on One Nation, Under God.

I’ve published short stories in the Chicago Reader (”The Courage of My Companions,” “Double Fault“), the Portland Review (”Lake Bus“), Time Out Chicago (”Ghost Stations“), and a couple of other places. I have a screenplay, “Driving a Bargain,” in preproduction. (It’s based on my play of the same name.) And before I came to Booklist, I was a columnist for Billiards Digest and a freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune, Playboy.com, the Daily Herald, CS, and NewCity, among other places.

I used to write the “Designated Drinker” column, first at NewCity, then at Local Palate. My attempts to turn it into a thriving blog have been somewhat thwarted by a lack of time.

I also confess to writing poetry, but no one has ever confessed to liking my poetry enough to publish it.

Okay, the personal stuff: I was born and raised in Missoula, Montana; I am married to the lovely and talented Marya Graff; I have two sons, Felix and Cosmo; and I live on the lakefront in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood.

Now I know why I didn’t write one of these for a year: it seems that, unless one wants to take the “affinities” approach (I like mystery novels, ale or porter, and long walks on rainy beaches) then the “who is” document feels uncomfortably like a “Look at me!” document.

Anyway, there’s my C.V. for your perusal.

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