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.

Femi's comedy drama BIG BAD WOLF was commissioned by Sky Studios in 2020 (rights returned). She was a writer on YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, a SONY podcast released in 2023, and hosted by Taye Diggs. She is currently writing her play OL' PEOPLE MAS, which was commissioned by the Bush Theatre in 2024.​

Femi is interested in themes of love, the body, grief, and growth – particularly that which is unavoidable. She has an anthropology degree, and she approaches her characters with an investigative curiosity and thoughtfulness she attributes to her studies in ethnography.  As in her life, humour is always present in her work, as she believes we can go to much deeper and darker places if we are carrying a little light.​

Femi has over a decade of facilitation experience and has delivered workshops in arts, education, and health settings in partnership with various venues and organisations including the Southbank Centre, Barbican, and the Arvon Foundation. Femi has worked extensively in prisons and criminal justice settings across England and Wales in partnership with organisations including English PEN, The Reading Agency, and Clinks.  She sat on the Koestler Arts board from 2016 - 2020. 

In addition to her writing and facilitation, Femi also works as a voice over artist and is signed to agency Another Tongue.