Keren David started in journalism as a teenage messenger girl on a national weekly paper, spending a year running errands and making coffee before turning down a place at university to be apprenticed as a reporter.
She worked as a news reporter and feature writer on local and national papers in London and Glasgow, and also taught a course in handling media attention for residents of Lockerbie as they prepared for the first anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster. Keren worked as an assistant news editor at The Independent and as a commissioning editor on the paper's Comment Pages.
In 1999 Keren moved to Amsterdam where she studied art history and worked as Editor in Chief for photo-journalism agency The Cover Story.
Keren returned to north London in 2007, with her husband and two children. She wrote her compelling debut YA novel, WHEN I WAS JOE, in five months while taking a course in Writing for Children at City University. WHEN I WAS JOE is the story of a teenage boy taken into police protection after witnessing a crime. In a two-book deal with Frances Lincoln Publishers, WHEN I WAS JOE will be published in January 2010, with the sequel ALMOST TRUE to follow in the Fall. www.wheniwasjoe.blogspot.com
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