Keven McQueen was born in Richmond, Kentucky. He has a B.A. in English from Berea College and an M.A. in English from Eastern Kentucky University. He is an instructor in the Department of English and Theater at EKU and the author of several books covering such topics as history, biography, historical true crime, natural disasters, folklore, and ghostlore.

Keven’s True Crime books include Murder in Old Kentucky; Cruelly Murdered: The Murder of Mary Magdalene Pitts and other Kentucky True Crime Stories; Strange Tales of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana; The Axman Came from Hell and Other Southern True Crime Stories; Louisville Murder and Mayhem; and Murder and Mayhem in Indiana.