Keith Meatto is a writer, editor, and teacher based in New York.

At Yale College, he studied English, philosophy, and Japanese language. After writing for magazines and newspapers in New York, San Francisco, and New Hampshire, he received his MFA in fiction writing at the New School. A former English teacher at Trevor Day School, he is now an adjunct college professor who has taught writing and literature at Pace University and LIM College, both in Manhattan. 

His short fiction has appeared in Artifice, Harpur Palate, Opium, and elsewhere. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Jewish Daily Forward, The Texas Observer, Mother Jones, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. In 2009, he was a writer in residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. 

He also edits the arts journal Frontier Psychiatrist, where he writes about music and books, has helped recruit and edit 75 contributing writers, and has helped grow the site's audience to 30,000 monthly visitors.

He was a story adviser to the documentary film How to Grow A Band, about Chris Thile and Punch Brothers. The movie played the Nashville Film Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and began its national theatrical tour in April 2012 at New York's Village East. Other screenings include San Francisco, New Orleans, Hartford, Portland and Eugene, OR, and Lexington, KY.  

As an editor and story consultant, he has advised writers on short stories, novels, nonfiction books, screenplays, stage plays, and doctoral dissertations. 

He likes to read books.