Femi Keeling (née Martin) is a British Caribbean writer born in London, and living in Surrey. 

​Femi's career began performing flash fiction on London's spoken word scene before becoming the Dickens 2012 Young Writer in Residence. Femi chose to pursue her writing career in the midst of battling a chronic illness, a time explored in the BBC Radio 4 documentary THE ACHALASIA DIARIES, which was a BBC Radio 4 Highlight of the Week in 2015. She toured her solo theatre show, HOW TO DIE OF A BROKEN HEART, across the UK in 2016/7.

Commissioned by Cardboard Citizens, her forum theatre piece RISING toured prisons and hostels, and enjoyed a special performance at City Hall in 2018. Her monologues MY FATHER’S SON and NAUGHTY BOY feature in the collection HEAR ME NOW: AUDITION MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS OF COLOUR (Oberon 2018). ​She is an alumna of the BBC Writers Room (London Voices) and the Orange Tree Theatre Writers Collective.